Album of Pine Canyon Field Trip

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to varied habitats in Pine Canyon between Orondo and the Waterville Plateau, Douglas County, Washington, on 1 May 2009. Spiders were a bit sparse here but we took enough to bring an old ten-species sample up to 23, including a couple of rarities. Photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Note, starting this year I'm experimenting with somewhat larger photos. See Laurel's account of the day here.
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2006 aerial photo of lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington landscape with pine tree, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Pine Canyon collecting area from the air (Douglas County, 2006) Trail of the Lonesome Pine                  © Laurel Ramseyer
flowering Ribes shrub, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington cottonwood riparian forest in canyon bottom from bridge, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Flowering Ribes produced some spiders  © Laurel Ramseyer Newly leafed cottonwoods in deep canyon bottom      © Rod Crawford
Balsamorhiza flower, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington native bunchgrass Agropyron spicatum, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Balsamorhiza                © Rod Crawford Native bunchgrass was common under the pines         © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pine cone, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington litter and cones under Ponderosa pine, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Ponderosa pine cone, good habitat   © Laurel Ramseyer The place to find cones         © Laurel Ramseyer
Douglas-fir foliage, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington Douglas-fir tree, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage, always productive        © Rod Crawford Fir foliage habitat was plentiful          © Rod Crawford
Neriene radiata filmy done spider Linyphiidae, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington rock rubble habitat, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Neriene radiata in web              © Laurel Ramseyer Rock rubble habitat of N.radiata           © Laurel Ramseyer
Ponderosa pine foliage, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington Douglas-fir and aspen trees in a side ravine, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Ponderosa pine foliage also produced spiders     © Laurel Ramseyer Side ravine wooded with fir and aspen          © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pine trunk, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington ravine-bed rock spider habitat, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington
Ponderosa pine trunk          © Rod Crawford Site's best habitat: rocks in ravine           © Rod Crawford
mammal-modified pine trunk, lower Pine Canyon, Douglas County, Washington sunset across Columbia River bridge from East Wenatchee, Washington
This trunk has seen better days          © Rod Crawford The sun sets as we recross the river to Wenatchee        © Rod Crawford

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