Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Pruning is a very useful silvicultural treatment both for improving the final quality of a stand and for controlling certain pests. However, pruning causes wounds that the tree must close as quickly...
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Gaston Laflamme
Guy Bussières
Annosus root and butt rot appeared in Quebec relatively recently and its progression still seems to be fairly limited. However, the capacity of this disease to spread over long distances and the value...
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Technology Transfer Notes are a new series of publications focusing on forestry research applications. Technology Transfer Notes offer new techniques, methods, tools and procedures, and deliver...
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Enrique Doblas-Miranda
Daniel Kneeshaw
Phil Burton
Barry Cooke
Marie-Josée Fortin
David MacLean
Rongzhou Man
Michael Papaik
Brian Sturtevant
Insect outbreaks are natural and recurring disturbances that have a greater impact on wood-fibre supply than wildfires. Proactive rather than reactive management strategies provide the best...
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With climate change, current research predicts an increase in forest fires in the wildland-human interface or WHI; several inhabited areas will be more at risk in the years to come. Despite this...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
This presentation provides an overview of ATCO Electric's approach to balancing wetland conservation and development as a regulated utility.
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Loius Archambault
J. Morissette
In Quebec, the bioclimatic zone of balsam fir-yellow birch covers an area of 94,768 km 2. Some of the forest cover types in the area, such as balsam fir-yellow birch, are among the most productive in...
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Government of Northwest Territories
A website giving information on the barren-ground herds in the NWT. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click here.
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Government of Northwest Territories
A 21-page booklet explaining the different responsibilities and authroities for managing all of the barren-ground caribou herds in the NWT. It includes information on responsibilities for herds that...
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Government of Northwest Territories
This is a two-page fact sheet on the herd from the Government of the Northwest Territories. Undated but recent. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find...
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Government of Northwest Territories
2-page fact sheet on the Bluenose-East caribou herd. Related Herds: Bluenose-East This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click...
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Kaitlyn Dornstauder
Benjamin Padilla
Susan Kutz
Visual assessment of caribou health is very difficult. To better understand the current health status of Bathurst caribou, Kaitlyn Dornstauder, a University of Calgary Veterinary student working in...
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Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
Beech scale is an introduced insect that damages beech trees; this damage can lead to beech bark disease. The insect was introduced to North America in the late 1800’s and has spread throughout...
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Nitrogen and complete fertilizer applications improved growth of white spruce on overburden sites. Fertilization did not, however, have an effect on lodgepole pine growth on tailings sand sites
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Ontario Environment, Conservation and Parks
These Best Management Practices ( BMPs) are meant to be used by mineral exploration and development proponents who are planning or conducting early exploration, advanced exploration, mine production...
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Kirk Andries
Jim Herbers
Dan Farr
Rick Schneider
Erin Bayne
Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Rob Serrouya
Scott Nielsen
Mike Kennedy
Tom Habib
Resource Date:
October
2013
This set of presentations will introduce you to the wide range of research topics currently being undertaken by the ABMI. Speakers present the state-of-the-science and discuss the implications for Alberta’s land-use managers and policy makers.
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Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC) of the NBCKC
This toolkit was created by the Indigenous Knowledge Circle of the NBCKC to support individuals and organizations seeking to learn how to do things differently, how to avoid repeating the mistakes of...
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V.F. Haavisto
J.W. Fraser
C.R. Mattice
Viability of black spruce ( Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) seeds after dispersal in nature or by man may be a crucial factor affecting regeneration of the species on boreal forest seedbeds. Some...
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Trees are constantly exposed to a multitude of micro-organisms, but only a few are capable of causing disease. When trees come under attack from micro-organisms, their primary line of defence is a...
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To make up for timber losses caused by fire, salvage logging of burned timber is an economically attractive option. Improved logging practices could promote the establishment of regeneration while...