Photographic Essay
of the
Indiana Dunes Site Indiana

The photographic essay focuses on an area of the Indiana Dunes in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana (Fig. 3.1). Photographs of selected wetlands and floodplain locations are digital camera images taken by the WETMAAP Development Team in March and September 2006 (Fig. 3.2).

The photographic essay is for use with a series of aerial photographs, topographic maps, wetland and upland habitat maps, and selected materials that assist in the identification of changes of wetland and floodplain habitats.

The photographic essay identifies habitat changes of the floodplain of Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The focus is on wetland habitats and the affects on wetlands resulting from rural and industrial development. Emphasis is on comparing ground level photography with maps and aerial and satellite imagery that aid in wetland interpretation for the area. The essay shows representative examples of fresh open water-lakes and channels, forested wetlands, wetland scrub-shrub, upland agricultural, upland range, and urban.

Figure 3.1: Proximal Location
The Indiana Dunes study site Chicago Quadrangle

Figure 3.2: Indiana Dunes Photo Essay
Ground Photograph Locations With Line- of- Sight

Plate numbers correspond with circled numbers on the reduced section (Indiana site) of the Chicago quadrangles. Arrows indicate directions of line-of-sight.