WETMAAP Skill 3
Avery and Weeks Islands: Element 2
Skill 3: Visual Recognition
Element 2: Habitat Maps and Feature Overlays
1963/80 1:24,000 scale Delcambre Topographic
Quadrangle
1955 Aerial
Photography
1978 Aerial
Photography
1988 Aerial
Photography
Colored Habitat maps and overlays (attached together) from Skill
3, Element 1
Feature overlays from
Technique 2, Element 1
1.
Observe the relationship of the roads to the
habitats and the observed habitat change using the overlays and the aerial photography.
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Was the Tollgate
there in 1955?
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Was the Pipeline
canal (Located at the bottom of study area) there in 1955?
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Was the Southern
Pacific Railroad there in 1955?
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Was the Pipeline Canal there in 1978?
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Was the Tollgate
there in 1978?
_______________ Was the
Tollgate there by 1988?
2.
Visually recognize the growth of the Avery Island
Oil and Gas Field from 1956 through 1988 and determine what habitats the field was
developed in.