Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Microsite heterogeneity is an important variable that drives biodiversity in forests. Current forest reclamation practices often do not incorporate site heterogeneity in their practices which might...
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The revegetation of tailings sand slopes that result from tar sands extraction pose many problems. The tailings material has a low moisture holding capacity, contains low amounts of plant nutrients...
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Lisa Kempenaar
J.K. McCarron
L.R. Marques
T. McClure
D. Rennie
Revegetation in arctic climates is a challenge for many reasons. There are two approaches to arctic revegetation: natural regeneration and active reclamation. Natural regeneration is an inexpensive...
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Chris Powter
Tanya Richens
Andy Etmanski
Amanda Schoonmaker
Dean MacKenzie
At the 2023 Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association annual conference, Chris Powter, Tanya Richens, Andy Etmanski, Amanda Schoonmaker, and Dean MacKenzie participated in a panel...
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Soil, a great and indispensable natural resource, is gradually carried away by wind action and erosion. Agricultural producers are aware of this, and many of them combat such factors by planting trees...
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vernon Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a surface mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since 1972. The main...
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Antoine Karam
Louis Azzaria
Les résidus miniers utilisés dans la présente étude proviennent de douze sites d'échantillonnage couvrant l'ensemble du parc à résidus miniers East Sullivan. Ces échantillons ont été intimement...
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Resource Date:
September
2019
For the purpose of informing biodiversity conservation efforts in managed landscapes, we explored whether and how understory plant communities (abundance, diversity, composition) were related to a...
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Authors
Dave Reid
Jim Sherstabetoff
Eleven major vegetation types were identified and are mapped at a scale of 1:20 000 on the eastern portion of Syncrude Lease 17.
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Review of provides basis for evaluating the current progress regarding vegetation descriptions in this area and for designing certain future vegetation studies.
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Everett Peterson
Allan Levinsohn
Black Spruce - Labrador Tea was the dominant vegetation type, making up 35.0% of the 9,250 ha study area. The 2nd most abundant type was Aspen - White Spruce (26.0%) and the 3rd was White Spruce – Asp
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The various applications of Ducks Unlimited Canada’s wetland inventories play a critical role in wetland conservation. They serve as key planning tools, helping people who live and work in the boreal...
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Resource Date:
April
2020
Exploration of resources (i.e. oil and gas, forestry) creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration (OSE) wells in boreal peatlands...
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Norman Allard Jr.
Tom Biebighauser
Resource Date:
February
2023
I am pleased to share the full short film The Wetlands. In 2017 Lower Kootenay Band began planning the restoration of a number of wetland impoundments created in the late 1960's to mid 1980's. Due to...
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Time spent foraging on 18 different plant species was estimated for 4 wapiti during winter (February 14-27), spring (June 12-18) and late summer (August 2O-September 2). Creeping red fescue and hard...
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Resource Date:
September
2018
Oil sands mining in Alberta has disturbed large areas of peatlands, the dominant regional ecosystem type, and no formal strategies exist to reconstruct the landscape. Peatland reclamation is...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Chibuike Chigbo
Brad Pinno
Robert Albricht
Resource Date:
April
2019
Temporary Reforestation of Soil Stockpiles: Using Nature to More Effectively Achieve Future Land Reclamation Goals in a Forested Landscape Industrial disturbances, whether in the mining or oil and gas...
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Moderate to rich fens covered with tamarack and black spruce cover large areas of Alberta. These peatlands are nearly pH neutral and are characterized by hummock-hollow topography where the hummocks...
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Bev Gingras
Jules Lebeouf
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
These proceedings describe the findings of the Wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs) Workshop held on January 20th & 21st 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada.