Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Justine Townsend
Faisal Moola
Mary-Kate Craig
Resource Date:
November
2020
Nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change mitigation—such as ecosystem protection or conservation, improved forest management practices, as well as afforestation—can significantly reduce global...
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Clayton Lamb
Roland Willson
Carmen Richter
Naomi Owens-Beek
Julian Napoleon
Bruce Muir
Scott McNay
Estelle Lavis
Mark Hebblewhite
Line Giguere
Tamara Dokkie
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Resource Date:
March
2022
Indigenous Peoples around the northern hemisphere have long relied on caribou for subsistence, ceremonial, and community purposes. Unfortunately, despite recovery efforts by Federal and Provincial...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
The presentation reviews physical and functional disturbances, best management practices, and opportunities for project planning/design, construction, operation and infrastructure decommissioning.
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Authors
Tyler Muhly
Robert Serrouya
Eric Neilson
Haitao Li
Stan Boutin
Predictions demonstrate that maintaining permeability across In-situ oil sands development is more important than spacing between leases or including protected areas.
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Authors
James Ryan
Gerald Hilchie
Representatives of 50 insect families were collected in sweep net samples, and additional families were observed to be present on the Suncor dike. Insect attacks were severe on conifer trees
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Peat extraction companies have learned a lot about how to restore these vital ecosystems. But slow growth, climate change, and complexity mean conservation is an important strategy as well. Over the...
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Heavy oils produced from the Alberta oil sands contain cyclic organic compounds together with sulphur and nitrogen. Upon thermal treatment they have potential to form carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxi
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North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA)
This Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP) lays out recommendations and an approach to manage the North Saskatchewan River (NSR) Watershed.
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Government of British Columbia
This primer is for staff of local governments in BC and is intended to help them capitalize on the real and immediate benefits of managing their natural assets.
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This report contains all the available suspended sediment discharge information for 1976 that was collected by Water Survey of Canada and by Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program (AOSERP)...
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This compilation report contains all the available 1977 suspended sediment concentration and particle size data collected in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program study area.
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Contains all available 1979 hydrometric data including daily discharges for streamflow stations with corresponding hydrographs and stage-discharge curves and water level information for gauged lakes.
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Authors
M. Hickman
S.E.D. Charlton
C.G. Jenkerson
Largest mean standing crops for the June to November period occurred in the Steepbank, Ells, and Hangingstone Rivers, while largest mean production rates occurred in the Ells and Muskeg rivers.
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12 to 40.% of streamflow during the late spring, summer and fall months consists of groundwater; the remainder comes from lake and muskeg drainage, as well as direct precipitation on stream channels
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Authors
Larry Turchenek
J.D. Lindsay
About 150 townships were field checked during the summer field season, and samples were taken from 44 mineral and 20 organic soil profiles
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Authors
Larry Turchenek
J.D. Lindsay
Samples were taken from eight mineral and eight organic soil profiles. In addition, samples of parent materials from eight mineral soil sites were taken for analysis.
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Authors
Larry Turchenek
J.D. Lindsay
The emphasis in this inventory is on soils and the landforms on which they occur; both are indicated on maps. Air photo interpretation and field checking have been completed
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Biomass of insects collected averaged 0.82 g oven-dry weight m-2, and ranged from 0.28 (Jack Pine forest) to 3.11 (fen) grams. Use of insects as environmental monitors is discussed
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Authors
W.A. Bond
Kazimierz Machniak
Migrations of non-resident fish from the Athabasca River into the Muskeg River watershed were monitored through the use of a two-way counting fence. 6153 fish passed through the upstream trap
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Preliminary experimental and survey research on benthic communities affected by selected hydrocarbons and tailings sludge produced by existing oil sands mining and upgrading operations