Fun and Useful Links

Dew on ponderosa pine needles along the Little Spokane
River, Spokane County, Washington, USA.

Here are some links that I've found useful in my study of spiders in fallen conifer cones.  A special shout-out goes to Rod Crawford's Spider Collector's Journal, which was the inspiration for this blog.

Spiders:

• American Arachnological Society
• Arachnologische Gesellschaft
• Les araignées de Belgique et de France
• Araneae Spiders of Europe
• British Arachnological Society
• BugGuide
• Catalogus van de Nederlandse Spinnen
• Checklist of the Spiders of British Columbia
• Czech Spiders (Pavouci CZ)
• European Society of Arachnology
• The Peckham Society (salticids)  
• Record Maps For Arachnids In Germany
• Spider Collector's Journal
• Spiders of North America
• Spinnen van Nederland 
• World Spider Catalog

Conifers & other flora:

• Calflora
• Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria
• The Distribution of forest trees in California (Griffin & Critchfield, 1976)
• E-flora BC: Electronics Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia 
• Flora of North America
• The Gymnosperm Database 
• Silvics of North America
• Trees of Washington (Mosher & Lunnum, 1997)

Websites and publications related to places I've sampled:
California

• Land Trust of Santa Cruz County
• Sandhills Alliance for Natural Diversity

Massachusetts

• Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec (P. Paquin & N. Dupérré, 2003)
• Spiders of Connecticut, revised edition (B. J. Kaston, 1981)
• Wachusett Reservoir (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation)
• Wachusett: How Boston's 19th Century Quest for Water Changed Four Towns and a Way of Life (Eamon McCarthy Earls, 2010) 

The Netherlands

• Natuurgebied Meijendel

Washington

• The Arachnids of Lewis & Clark (Oregon)
• Butterflies and Moths of Pacific Northwest Forests and Woodlands: Rare, Endangered, and Management-Sensitive Species (Miller & Hammond, 2007)
• Checklist of the Spiders of British Columbia (Bennett et al., 2017)
• Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: Caterpillars and Adults (Miller & Hammond, 2003)
• Spokane County Conservation Futures Program
• Suntop Fire Lookout Official USFS page and Facebook community page