WETMAAP Skill 3
Northshore - Element 2

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

Materials:

1:24,000 scale Covington/Mandeville Quadrangle

1958 Aerial Photography

1978 Aerial Photography

1988 Aerial Photography

1995 Aerial Photography

Habitat and feature overlays (from Skill 1, Element 3)

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 Causeway there in 1958?

Was the Mandeville Sewage Disposal Plant there in 1956?

Was the shopping center on the southeast corner of the intersection of Highway 190 and Causeway approach there in 1956?

Was the Mandeville Sewage Disposal Plant there in 1978?

Was the shopping center on the southwest corner of the intersection of Highway 190 and Causeway approach there in 1978?

Was the shopping center on the southwest corner of the intersection of Highway 190 and Causeway approach there in 1988?

The Sewage Disposal Plant was developed into what habitat?

  2. Visually recognize the growth of subdivisions form 1956 through 1995 and determine what habitats the subdivisions were developed in.