Boreal Caribou Search Results
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What is successful reclamation? Government and industry officials have agreed that successful reclamation is to restore land to former or equivalent capability. For agriculture or forestry this would...
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Paul King
G. Granger
A. Straka
The results of preliminary experiments on pre-germination treatment methods for nine selected native woody plant species for disturbed land reclamation in the Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes of Alberta.
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.
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The Development and Reclamation Review process, as it currently operates, is presented and discussed with the aid of a flow chart. Suggestions are made to improve and expedite the process with...
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The study's purpose is to assess the nutrient self-sufficiency of five-year-old reclaimed areas in montane and subalpine environments. Adjacent, undisturbed native grasslands were also studied for...
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L.M. McKinnon
A.K. Mitchell
A. Vyse
In forestry, the purpose of site preparation is to ameliorate environmental conditions which limit tree seedling survival and growth. In subalpine and boreal forests, low soil temperature in...
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Don Thacker
Richard Johnson
Cone penetration resistence as a measure of compaction was used to evaluate minespoils from the Luscar geological formation of the Alberta Rocky Mountain Foothills across the plant available moisture...
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Reviews what is currently known of fish ecology and production of the Athabasca Basin, and includes discussions of fish production, sport and commercial use of fish populations
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Through the development of two Department of Environment programs; namely, the Regional Landfill Program and the H.S.T.F. Land Reclamation Program and the enactment of the Sand and Gravel regulations...
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David Walker
R.S. Sadasiviah
Jan Weijer
Native grass species have adapted to the prevailing climatic and soil conditions of Alberta's Rocky Mountains through many years of natural selection. It is generally accepted that disturbed areas in...
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Y. Huberman
J. Beckers
R. Brett
G. Castilla
R. Errington
E.C. Fraser-Reid
D. Goodsman
E.H. Hogg
J. Metsaranta
E. Neilson
J. Olesinski
M.-A. Parisien
D. Price
T. Ramsfield
C. Shaw
D. Thompson
M.F. Voicu
E. Whitman
J. Edwards
The climate in Canada’s north has changed over the past 70 years. Indeed, mean annual temperature in the Northwest Territories has increased by 2°C to 4°C since record keeping began in 1950. Annual...
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Vincent Boulanger-Martel
Bruno Bussière
Jean Côté
Insulation covers are an appealing reclamation approach to control sulfide oxidation in tailings storage facilities located in the Arctic. In this study, the thermal behaviour and effectiveness of...
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The Alberta Research Council, Inc. (ARC) has conducted a surface coal mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since...
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Karine Pigeon
Meghan Anderson
Doug MacNearney
Jerome Cranston
Gordon Stenhouse
Laura Finnegan
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Emanuel Machado
Dave Newman
Lorraine Coughlin
André Boel
Lizette Fischer
Roy Brooke
Improving the management of Canada’s infrastructure and other assets is a vital, yet complex, challenge.
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Technology Transfer Notes are a series of publications focusing on forestry research applications. Technology Transfer Notes offer new techniques, methods, tools and procedures, and deliver research...
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Twenty-year growth results reported for a series of trial sites in southeastern British Columbia indicated that interior spruce progeny, regardless of seed origin, grew faster (32%, on average) and...
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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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Amy Nixon
Christopher Shank
Dan Farr
The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project has produced a comprehensive, evidence-based, and original examination of the effects of climate change on Alberta’s biodiversity
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.