Album of Sultan Cemetery Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from a 27 June 2012 spider collecting trip (using public transportation) to habitats adjacent to the town cemetery in Sultan, Washington. The habitats were highly altered and rich in non-native species, but I got a 22-species sample in a short day, collecting in rich grassy fields, forest heavily invaded by ivy and blackberry, and a stony slope with a variety of conifers (plus Scots broom).
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2009 aerial photo of collecting sites near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington field of grass and catsear, near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
1, 2, 3 mark collecting sites; cemetery at lower left   (Snohomish County, 2009) Gigantic field of grass and yellow flowers                  © Rod Crawford
buttercup in grassy field near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington catsear (false dandelion) Hypochaeris radicata in grassy field near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Buttercups in field                © Rod Crawford Catsear (false dandelions) in field          © Rod Crawford
crab spider Xysticus cristatus from grassy field, near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington invasive blackberry between field & forest near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Introduced Xysticus cristatus from grass   © Rod Crawford Between field & forest, the Blackberry Barrier              © Rod Crawford
grass field productive of spiders, near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington shed buried in blackberry thicket near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Grass yielded lots of spiders     © Rod Crawford Shed almost swallowed up by blackberries               © Rod Crawford
invasive ivy on tree near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington ivy covers ground in forest near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Invasive ivy up to its old tricks…         © Rod Crawford …but it fought off enough blackberry to give me access   © Rod Crawford
sword fern Polystichum munitum near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington ant mimic spider Phrurotimpus borealis from near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Some native forest flora remains             © Rod Crawford And some native forest spiders: Phrurotimpus borealis      © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii foliage near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington stony slope habitat near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Unencumbered Douglas-fir foliage  © Rod Crawford Stony slope with spider-rich conifers               © Rod Crawford
stony ground near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington stand of scots broom at edge of mowed field near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Stony ground gives blackberry no foothold      © Rod Crawford But note dense stand of broom at edge of mowed area       © Rod Crawford
western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla foliage on stony slope near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington lodgepole pine tree Pinus contorta on stony slope near Sultan Cemetery, Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Hemlock foliage was available too        © Rod Crawford And even lodgepole pine!             © Rod Crawford
sign on diner or roadhouse in Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington Gunn Peak seen from downtown Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Is this the hottest night spot in Sultan?   © Rod Crawford Gunn Peak visible through wires from Sultan            © Rod Crawford

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