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 Bayou  Topographic Quadrangle

1958  Aerial Photography

1978  Aerial Photography

1988  Aerial Photography

            1995  Aerial Photography

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

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 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.