Album of Highland Park Field Trip

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to an undeveloped area called "Highland Memorial Park" on some maps, on the border of Mukiltio and Everett, Snohomish County, Washington, 30 June 2006. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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aerial view (USGS, 2002) of meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Aerial view of lower meadow (USGS, 2002) Looking across the meadow         © Rod Crawford
Himalayan blackberry Rubus discolor encroaching on meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Blackberry encroaching on one part  © Rod Crawford High quality part of the meadow      © Rod Crawford
crab spider Tibellus oblongus, Port Orchard, Washington, 1980 by Stella Rodal Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii at edge of meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Grassland spider Tibellus oblongus    © Stella Rodal Douglas-fir foliage habitat             © Rod Crawford
fireweed, Epilobium sp., at edge of meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington pond in forest, Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Stand of tall fireweed           © Rod Crawford Hidden pond in the woods      © Rod Crawford
pond in forest, Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington herbaceous forest understory foliage, Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Glimpse of pond through bushes  © Rod Crawford Herbaceous area of understory      © Rod Crawford
fern in forest understory, Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington trunk and shade of Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii at edge of meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Fern in forest understory       © Rod Crawford In the shade of the old Douglas-fir...      © Rod Crawford
American house spider Achaearanea tepidariorum, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, by Lynette Schimming mysterious concrete structure in meadow in Highland Memorial Park, Everett, Washington
Achaearanea tepidariorum   © Lynette Schimming ...was found in this odd structure in the meadow     © Rod Crawford

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