7.4. Current Land Use Once you have collected oral histories and researched written/pictorial records, you should be able to produce a map of what the watercourse was like long ago (see sample, figure) to compare it to your map of today. Now, you are ready to add further details to your map of the watercourse, as it exists today. At this point you are asking the final two research questions: What is it like now? What is changing now? These final research questions can be answered by: - Obtaining physical information (including facts about fish populations) by talking to local people and examining government records - Making on-site observations and researching current land-use patterns - Doing a survey on the watercourse's physical condition and habitat potential. - Interviewing people and examining written records. Information on the current condition of the watercourse can be obtained by the same methods you used to discover its history (talking to people and examining recent records. Don't forget to add all of this information to your map