WETMAAP Skill 3
Golden Meadow - Element 2
Skill 3:
Visual Recognition
Element 2: Habitat
Maps and Feature Overlays
Materials:
1994 1:24,000 scale Golden Meadow/Golden Meadow
Farms/Bay Courant/Mink
1958 Aerial Photography
1978 Aerial Photography
1988 Aerial Photography
1995 Aerial
Photography
Habitat and feature overlays (from
Tech. 2, Element 2)
1. Observe
the relationship of the roads to the habitats and the observed habitat change using the
overlays and the aerial photography.
______________ Was the hurricane protection levee there in 1958?
______________ Was the Plaisance Canal there in 1956?
______________ Were the pipeline canals (in southwest corner of
study site) there in 1956?
______________ Was the Plaisance Canal there in 1978?
______________ Was the hurricane protection levee there in 1978?
_______________Was
the hurricane protection levee there by 1988?
______________ The hurricane protection levee was built through
what habitat?
2. Visually recognize the growth of
the Golden Meadow Oil and Gas Field from 1956 through 1995 and determine what habitats the
field was developed in.