Album of Duckabush Valley Field Trip

Selected photos (by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer) from our Christmas Eve (2009) collecting trip to the east side of the Olympic Peninsula (north part of Hood Canal). We reached neither of our planned destinations, but in what remained of the day we managed to get a decent sample at two sites along Duckabush Road, main route up the Duckabush River. At Interrorem Guard Station, oldest Forest Service building on the peninsula, the rain-forest-like habitats produced some worthwhile spiders and a bag of cold, wet leaf litter for later processing by Berlese funnel. At a powerline clearing farther down the valley, Laurel got a number of grassy-field spiders while I added several more litter species.
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Interrorem Guard Station cabin, Duckabush River, Jefferson County, Washington mossy bigleaf maple tree in winter, Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington
Interrorem Guard Station cabin, built 1907       © Rod Crawford Mossy bigleaf maple at Interrorem             © Rod Crawford
forest understory, Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington Forest trail at Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington
Forest understory at Interrorem         © Laurel Ramseyer Second-growth forest approaching natural structure      © Rod Crawford
western hemlock foliage Tsuga heterophylla, Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington Wubana suprema male, microspider Linyphiidae, from hemlock foliage, Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington
Western hemlock foliage, source of…     © Laurel Ramseyer First Wubana suprema from the Olympic Peninsula!      © Rod Crawford
mossy limbs and trunks in forest, Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington Berlese funnel with maple leaf litter from Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington
Abundant moss produced a good spider sample     © Rod Crawford Leaf litter from Interrorem in the Berlese funnel            © Rod Crawford
2005 aerial photo of powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington overview of powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Aerial view of powerline collecting area    (Jefferson County, 2005) Overview of habitats at the powerline            © Laurel Ramseyer
Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii foliage at powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington scots broom Cytisus scoparius at powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage at powerline         © Laurel Ramseyer Scots broom foliage actually produced better spiders        © Laurel Ramseyer
elk scat Cervus canadensis roosevelti, powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington Mt. Jupiter seen from powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Elk scat (we saw no elk, but at least…)   © Laurel Ramseyer Mount Jupiter, by Jove!               © Laurel Ramseyer
Laurel Ramseyer examining spider catch, powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington winter grass in powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Laurel examining a sweep sample        © Rod Crawford Dead winter grass is still spider habitat         © Rod Crawford
old stumps in powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington sun-warmed leaf litter near powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Stumps from clearcut before last      © Rod Crawford A patch of sun-warmed leaf litter       © Rod Crawford
Dirksia cinctipes, agelenoid spider from Interrorem Guard Station, Jefferson County, Washington bigleaf maple trunk Acer macrophyllum with moss and litter, powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
Dirksia cinctipes, one of our gaudier spiders     © Rod Crawford Bigleaf maple trees provide excellent litter and moss        © Rod Crawford
Fog in the Duckabush valley, powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington Floodplain forest along Duckabush River from powerline clearing on Duckabush Road, Jefferson County, Washington
At dusk, fog returns to the Duckabush valley     © Rod Crawford Looking down at the floodplain along the Duckabush       © Rod Crawford


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