by WSG Crab Team | Jun 10, 2025 | Team News
Recording mortality and in-planting chestnut trees at Pack forest. Photo: Christoper Harris-Adams This spring, WSG Crab Team was joined by an undergraduate student assistant, Christopher Harris-Adams. Christopher Harris-Adams is currently pursuing his B.S. at UW’s...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 6, 2025 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Natural History Notes: HEOR Tufts What are those blobby things on shore crab claws? You may have occasionally noticed fleshy blobs on the inside of shore crab claws. They are most evident on males, which have larger claws than females. In fact these are tufts...
by WSG Crab Team | Feb 26, 2025 | Community Science, Team News
From humble beginnings spent daydreaming in 2014, from the first trap in the water in 2015, to a network of 307 active monitors across 68 sites: in 2024, Crab Team celebrated a decade of trudging around in the mud and counting crabs! A total of 770 monitors and 37,000...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 16, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Number: 602 Region: Pacific County Launched: 2020 Site Captains: Megan Bungum and Rachel Flannery Tokeland is a site with significant historical status, to the story of green crab in Washington and much deeper in time as well. Within the Crab Team monitoring network,...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 16, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Diet DNA: What Are Green Crabs Eating? It’s a beautiful, blue-sky day in Willapa Bay. The sunlight dances on Stackpole slough as a light breeze ruffles the surface of the water. We can still hear some birdsong from the woods along the shoreline. And I’m stuck in...
