Selected photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford from our 2 May 2023 spider collecting trip to sites on Deer Park Road, Clallam County, Washington. After a brief initial stop on the cemetery-spider project, we proceeded to my main habitat goal, where entry turns out to be forbidden due to supposed danger. But a recent clearcut gave us 24 species and a nice mixed forest (on private timberland) with a trail through it, brought us up to 49, best total so far this year!

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Deer Park Road goes down left side & diagonally across lower middle; our sites in red; forbidden meadow in upper left (Clallam County 2021)	Sequim View Cemetery with mountainous backdrop           © Rod Crawford
Forbidden!                  © Laurel Ramseyer	The 2019 clearcut, rich in reachable conifer foliage           © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir foliage had plenty of spiders    © Rod Crawford	The clearcut has a futile, token standing-tree aggregate    © Laurel Ramseyer
Many branches callously shot off           © Rod Crawford	Varied ground surface                       © Rod Crawford
Scene of the crime               © Laurel Ramseyer	Phidippus johnsonii from under clearcut debris         © Laurel Ramseyer
Sad remnant of understory ferns        © Laurel Ramseyer	Maiden Peak and Elk Mountain                 © Rod Crawford
Leaf litter sheltered behind boulder        © Rod Crawford	Blocked & gated timber road into our 2nd site          © Rod Crawford
Seral but unspoiled alder-conifer forest was pleasant  © Rod Crawford	Brook and bridge on informal trail                 © Rod Crawford
Mossy alders, but moss was dry         © Rod Crawford	Blocked road has become a trail             © Laurel Ramseyer
Laurel sorting a sweep sample         © Rod Crawford	She'd been sweeping trailside grass                © Laurel Ramseyer
Small Northern Toad           © Rod Crawford	Understory sword fern fronds             © Rod Crawford
Rod sorting a fern beat sample           © Laurel Ramseyer	Productive fern understory in its full glory                   © Rod Crawford
Pelecopsis sculpta sifted from moss          © Rod Crawford	Alate carpenter ant on car                    © Laurel Ramseyer
The usual cormorant at ferry terminal  © Laurel Ramseyer	Sun setting behind the ferry                   © Laurel Ramseyer

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