1. Images of the Marshlands, Southern Iraq, from NASA Space Shuttle Missions 1985-2002 Stuart Leiderman, Environmental Response “Environmental Refugees and Ecological Restoration” leiderman@mindspring.com 603.269.2139

2. 1985

3. 1989 - Draining Oilfields of Eastern Central and Hammar Marshes (also Fires)

4. 1989 - Haweizeh [?] Fires

5. 1990 - Eastern Central & Hammar Marshes (Oilfields) Drained

6. Kuwait Gulf War Fires

7. April 1991 – Some Draining of Southwestern Hammar Lake?

8. June 1991

9. September 1991 – Mother of Battles [MOB]/Main Outfall Drain [MOD] Draining Hammar Lake

10. March 1992 – Hammar Lake Continuing to Drain

11. June 1992 - MOB/MOD More Visible to East, w/Fires

12. September 1992 – First Signs of North/South Canal

13. September 1992 - MOB/MOD Almost Complete

14. April 1993 - North/South Canal Complete

15. April 1993 - Central Canal, but Western Portion of Marshes Wet

16. October 1993 - Western Portion of Central Marshes Now Dry

17. February 1994 – All Central & Hammar Dry

18. February 1994

19. 1994 - Fires in Hammar Marsh

20. 1994 - Marsh Fires

21. 1994 - Hammar Fires

22. April 1994 - Fires

25. March 1995

26. 1998

27. 2002 - Haweizeh Fires