WETMAAP Skill 3
False River Element 2 

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

Materials:

1:24,000 scale 11962/1994 New Roads, LA / 1962/1980 Erwinville, LA, USGS Topographic Quadrangles

1956 False River Aerial Photograph

1983 False River Aerial Photograph

2004 False River Aerial Photograph

Habitat and feature overlays (from Tech. 2,Element 2 )

Magnifying Glass

Exercise:

1.Using the aerial photography 1956, 1983, 2004, and the 1962/1994 New Roads, LA / 1962/1980 Erwinville, LA, USGS Topographic Quadrangles:

a.  Identify changes in the urban and agriculture sectors of the False River site.

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b.  Identify changes in upland forest and wetland forest within the False River site.

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c.  From observations of the topographic map, habitat maps, and aerial photos what characteristics make the False River site a typical floodplain of the Lower Mississippi Floodplain?

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d.  What characteristics might make the False River site atypical for a normal floodplain?

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