Alternative Energy Draft EA - NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Flight ...

Affected Environment
Photograph 1: Viewshed from a vantage point west of WFF located approximately 3.7 kilometers
(2.3 miles) southwest of the bridge that links Wallops Mainland to Wallops Island looking northeast
toward the bridge.
Typical viewsheds from within WFF include a mix of buildings, roads, and other infrastructure
such as towers, open grassy areas that are maintained in the summer by mowing, and forest.
WFF’s Wallops Island property contains a larger amount of natural areas compared to the Main
Base, and the viewsheds from Wallops Island generally include one or more of the following in
addition to buildings and infrastructure: wetland vegetation, maritime scrub-shrub forest
vegetation, or the rock seawall and the ocean beyond. Photographs 2 and 3 show typical views at
the Main Base, and Photograph 4 shows a typical view at Wallops Island. Figure 17 provides an
aerial view of Wallops Island for context.
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