Album of Field Trip to Big Gulch Open Space

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to the Big Gulch Open Space, a greenbelt in Mukilteo, Snohomish County, Washington on 28 June 2006. Now why does Big Gulch make me think of convenience-store soft drinks? But the habitat was actually fairly high quality. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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aerial photo (2002) of a side ravine of Big Gulch, Mukilteo, Washington forest understory with log, Big Gulch, Mukilteo, Washington
Ravine surrounded by Suburbia (USGS, 2002) Log over the dry stream bed              © Rod Crawford
forest understory vegetation, Big Gulch, Mukilteo, Washington forest understory with large old stump, Big Gulch, Mukilteo, Washington
All-natural forest understory       © Rod Crawford Giant stump shows what used to be here   © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum forest canopy, Big Gulch, Mukilteo, Washington Sierra dome spider Neriene litigiosa, Crabapple Lake, 5 September 1966, J.R.Thomson photo
The canopy was pure bigleaf maple  © Rod Crawford Dome-weaving Neriene litigiosa was common here   © J.R.Thomson

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