WETMAAP Skill 3
Avery and Weeks Islands: Element 2

Skill 3: Visual Recognition
Element 2: Habitat Maps and Feature Overlays

 Materials:
            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

 Exercise:
    1.       Observe the relationship of the roads to the habitats and the observed habitat change using the overlays and the aerial photography.

                        ______________             Was the Tollgate there in 1955?

                        ______________             Was the Pipeline canal (Located at the bottom of study area) there in 1955?

                        ______________             Was the Southern Pacific Railroad there in 1955?

                        ______________            Was the Pipeline Canal there in 1978?

                       ______________             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.