Postcards from America Required landscape Exercise LANDSCAPE FEATURE TOPICS Choose a mix of 16 landscapes from the 80 listed to include in your portfolio. The 16 landscape features you choose should be varied and represent different areas of the U.S. and Canada from the Arctic to the Everglades, from the mountains to the plains, from urbanized areas to rural towns, from manufacturing complexes to wilderness areas. 1. Adirondack Park in NYS 2. Aleutian Islands 3. Amish area (choose Ohio or New York or Pennsylvania) 4. Badlands topography 5. Baffin Island environment 6. Barrier islands of the East Coast (select one segment) 7. Basin and Range topography 8. Black Hills environment 9. Canadian National Park north of latitude 60 N. 10. Canals and locks (pick one transportation canal in the US or Canada) 11. Clear cutting in the Pacific Northwest 12. Coal mining in Pennsylvania 13. Colonial fort location (pick one) 14. Congressional Survey System 15. Containerization ports (pick one) 16. Dams on the Columbia River 17. Desert landscape of southern Arizona 18. Earthquake Aftermath Landscape 19. El Camino Real (California) 20. Everglades of South Florida 21. Farming in California s Central Valley 22. Feed lots of the Mid West 23. Finger Lakes of Upstate New York 24. Fjord coastline 25. Florida Keys tropical landscape 26. Freeways of Los Angeles urban landscape 27. French long lot system in Louisiana 28. Fruit tree landscape 29. Gentrification in the city of (pick one city) 30. Ghost towns of the West 31. Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay 32. Great Salt Lake and vicinity 33. Groins and jetties and the sandy coastline 34. Hog farms 35. Hoh Rainforest natural landscape 36. Hurricane X (pick any one): Before and after landscapes 37. Jamestown Settlement Virginia Colony 38. Lake of the Woods natural landscape 39. Lake Tahoe and vicinity 1
40. Lava flows on the island of Hawaii 41. Meander loops and oxbow lakes of the Mississippi flood plain 42. Metes and bounds survey system 43. Mississippi River delta meets the Gulf of Mexico 44. Missouri River flooding landscape 45. Monument Valley natural landscape 46. Mountain ski resort landscapes (pick one) 47. Napa Valley wine country 48. National Park Service (NPS) national seashore landscape (select one) 49. New England townscapes 50. New Orleans flood control system 51. Northern estates 52. Okefenokee Swamp 53. Open pit mines 54. Pacific Coast Highway 55. Pearl Harbor s site and situation and its affect on Dec. 7, 1941. 56. Pivot irrigation system 57. Portland, ME vs. Portland, OR (compare the landscapes of the two cities) 58. Railroads crossing the Rocky Mts. (select one US or Canadian RR lines) 59. Redwood forests of California 60. Rocky shorelines 61. Rust belt landscapes of the northeast US 62. Salton Sea and vicinity 63. San Andreas Fault zone 64. Santa Fe Trail landscapes 65. St. Augustine (FL) Old Town 66. Shopping mall landscape (pick one) 67. Site and situation of any state or provincial capital city 68. Southern plantation 69. Strip mining 70. Suburbanization of (pick a city) 71. Tornado Alley 72. Tourist landscape of Orlando, FL and vicinity 73. Town plat (street layout) of 2 cities or towns with different backgrounds (compare them) 74. Tundra landscape of around Hudson Bay 75. Urban landscape of (choose Toronto or Chicago or Denver or Seattle) 76. U.S./Mexico border area 77. Volcanic features of western North America (pick one area) 78. Wheat fields of the Dakotas or Prairie Provinces 79. Yakima Valley agricultural area 80. Zuni Pueblo NOTE: A mix similar to the following, using sites from the Arctic to Florida and Hawaii and areas in between, would provide diversity to your portfolio: 4 physical landscapes 3 environmental impact features 4 cultural landscapes 2 features from national/state/provincial park sites 2 features from urbanized areas 1 feature that is from colonial/pioneer times AFG 1014(rev) 2
Grouped Examples from the List Above. Some places may fall into more than one category and you may use it in a category different from below as long as you clearly state its new category and explain it. However, each place may be used only once. NATURAL LANDSCAPE 1. Aleutian Islands 2. Badlands topography 3. Baffin Island environment 4. Barrier islands of the East Coast (select one segment) 5. Basin and Range topography 6. Black Hills environment 7. Desert landscape of southern Arizona 8. Finger Lakes of Upstate New York 9. Fjord coastline 10. Florida Keys tropical landscape 11. Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay 12. Hoh Rainforest natural landscape 13. Lake of the Woods natural landscape 14. Lava flows on the island of Hawaii 15. Meander loops and oxbow lakes of the Mississippi flood plain 16. Mississippi River delta meets the Gulf of Mexico 17. Missouri River flooding landscape 18. Okefenokee Swamp 19. Rocky shorelines 20. San Andreas Fault zone 21. Tundra landscape of around Hudson Bay 22. Volcanic features of western North America (pick one area) CULTURAL LANDSCAPE 1. Amish area (choose an area from Ohio or New York or Pennsylvania) 2. Canals and locks (select one transportation canal in the US or Canada) 3. Congressional Survey System 4. Dams on the Columbia River 5. Farming in California s Central Valley 6. French long lot system in Louisiana 7. Fruit tree landscape 8. Lake Tahoe and vicinity 9. Metes and bounds survey system 10. Mountain ski resort landscapes (pick one) 11. Napa Valley wine country 12. New Orleans flood control system 13. Northern estates 14. Pacific Coast Highway 15. Railroads crossing the Rocky Mts. (select one US or Canadian RR lines) 16. Shopping mall landscape (pick one) 17. Southern plantation 18. Tourist landscape of Orlando, FL and vicinity 19. U.S./Mexico border area 20. Wheat fields of the Dakotas or Prairie Provinces 21. Yakima Valley agricultural area 22. Zuni Pueblo 3
PARK DESIGNATION 1. Adirondack Park in NYS 2. Canadian National Park north of latitude 60 N. 3. Everglades of South Florida 4. Monument Valley Tribal Park 5. National Park Service (NPS) national seashore landscape (select one) 6. Pearl Harbor s site and situation and its affect on Dec. 7, 1941. 7. Redwood forests of California URBAN LANDSCAPE 1. Containerization ports (pick one) 2. Freeways of Los Angeles urban landscape 3. Gentrification in the city of (pick one) 4. Great Salt Lake and vicinity 5. New England townscapes 6. Portland, ME vs. Portland, OR (compare the landscapes of the two cities) 7. Rust belt landscapes of the northeast US 8. Site and situation of any state or provincial capital city 9. Suburbanization of (pick a city) 10. Town plat (street layout) of 2 cities or towns with different backgrounds (compare them) 11. Urban landscape of (choose Toronto or Chicago or Denver or Seattle) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 1. Clear cutting in the Pacific Northwest 2. Coal mining in Pennsylvania 3. Earthquake aftermath landscape 4. Feed lots of the Mid West 5. Groins and jetties and the sandy coastline 6. Hog farms 7. Hurricane X (pick any one): Before and after landscapes 8. Open pit mines 9. Pivot irrigation system 10. Salton Sea and vicinity 11. Strip mining 12. Tornado Alley COLONIAL/PIONEER TIMES 1. Colonial fort location (pick one) 2. El Camino Real (California) 3. Ghost towns of the West 4. Jamestown Settlement Virginia Colony 5. Santa Fe Trail landscapes 6. St. Augustine (Florida) Old Town 4
LANDSCAPE FEATURES PORTFOLIO LOCATOR MAP KEY to LOCATION of the LANDSCAPES included in the PORTFOLIO. (Remember to select examples from all parts of the United States and Canada.) 1. 9. 2. 10. 3. 11. 4. 12. 5. 13. 6. 14. 7. 15. 8. 16. 5