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For Assignment 4, our team decided to focus on areas in the Broad River watershed we felt should be made into conservation areas. Our first step in doing the project was to compile all the necessary data for study. We also determined we would need three different views to complete our layout. For the first view, our main view, we decided we needed data of the counties, watershed, wetlands, river, species, and recharge areas. View 2 was the locator map showing data of the state of Georgia along with the counties and the watershed. View 3 was simply an up-close view of the area we decided to conserve. Going back to view 1, we decided to conserve areas that had large amounts of species, recharge areas, and wetlands. First, we found the species and recharge areas that were within 800 meters of wetlands. This gave us large areas in the southern portion of the watershed, a smaller area in the northeast portion of the watershed, and an even smaller area in the northwest portion. We decided to conserve one area, the area in the southern portion of the watershed, for a couple of reasons. First, there was a much larger amount of species, recharge areas, and wetlands than in any of the other areas of the watershed. Second, the actual river was in this area. Due to these two reasons, we decided the southern area would be the most advantageous to conserve. The species and recharge areas that were within 800 meters of the wetlands became marked in yellow symbols making them easy to differentiate from the other species and recharge areas. After gathering this data, we placed all the views into our layout. We did not have the type of information to make a chart or graph with since we chose to conserve only one area. Before actually compiling the data, we guessed that the area we would probably conserve would be around the area we actually did conserve. This was because the river was in this area. With GIS, we were able to determine this for sure though.