WETMAAP Skill 3
Indiana Dunes Element 2 

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

Materials:

1:24,000 scale 1991/1991 Dune Acres, IN/ Chesterton, IN, USGS Topographic Quadrangles

1938 Indiana Dunes Aerial Photograph

1954 Indiana Dunes Aerial Photograph

1979 Indiana Dunes Aerial Photograph

2005 Indiana Dunes Aerial Photograph

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

Magnifying Glass

Exercise:

1. Using the aerial photography 1938, 1954, 1979, 2005, and the 1991/1991 Dune Acres, IN/ Chesterton, IN, USGS Topographic Quadrangles:

a.  Identify changes in the Lake Michigan shoreline and adjacent dunes.

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b.  Identify changes in woodland / wetland forested / wetland scrub-shrub within the Indiana Dunes site.

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c.  How has the area of Cowles Bog changed over the last 70 years?

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