Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Sari Holopainen
Elmo Miettinen
Veli-Matti Väänänen
Petri Nummi
Hannu Pöysä
Wetlands belong to the globally most threatened habitats, and organisms depending on them are of conservation concern. Wetland destruction and quality loss may affect negatively also boreal breeding...
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Aneta Spyra
Anna Cieplok
Mariola Krodkiewska
Beaver-created ponds constitute an important element of small water retention in forest catchments and preserving biodiversity as breeding sites for vertebrates and invertebrates. In many areas, these...
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The Bipole III Transmission Project is a 1,388 km high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project traversing several ecozones. The project starts at the Keewatinohk converter station near...
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Jesse Tigner
Erin Bayne
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
January
2014
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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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
From a caribou’s perspective, seismic lines might be considered effectively ‘restored’—that is, the additional risk associated with them might be considered negligible—once vegetation reaches 50 cm
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In area with increased moose hunting, moose populations dropped by a surprising 70% and caribou survival rates increased by more than 10% - enough that the caribou population stabilized
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Resource Date:
January
2020
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) initiated the Western Boreal Program in 1997 with an understanding that working with forward thinking forest industry partners was key to advancing wetland conservation in...
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A resource to improve understanding of wetlands in the Bow River region to promote conservation through protection and restoration. Wetlands are natural assets that have a vital role in climate change...
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Conservation biologists invest a huge amount of time reviewing camera trap images, and – even worse – a huge fraction of that time is spent reviewing images they aren't interested in. This primarily...
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Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about...
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As caribou habitat restoration initiatives have become more widespread across Alberta in the last decade, key uncertainties have been recognized regarding what treatment types are appropriate for...
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Ronnie Drever
Maria Strack
Kristy Burke
Learn more about the recent work of two renowned Canadian researchers and how their work has benefited from various collaborations and communication across diverse stakeholder groups
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Amy Christianson
Colin Sutherland
Faisal Moola
Noémie Bautista
David Young
Heather MacDonald
Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature...
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Bin Xu
Workshop summary of discussions to inform a path forward for a policy framework that provided clarity on the process to request a change in land use and the criteria for evaluating the requests.
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Bin Xu
Factors to consider when assessing the ecological implications of a change in land use request (hydrology, cumulative effects and regional considerations, upland function, status of the borrow pit ...
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Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Natalie Shelby-James
Bonnie Drozdowski
This 2022 Update is a revision of the original Decision Framework and Support Tools report based on stakeholder feedback and a field verification trial.
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Chris Powter
Natalie Shelby-James
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Results of a stakeholder review of the draft Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools report and a field verification trial by practitioners.
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Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the...
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Authors
Megan Schmidt
Scott Davidson
Maria Strack
Resource Date:
January
2022
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Alberta Environment and Parks
This code of practice regulates wetland restoration and wetland construction activities as defined in the Code by replacing Water Act approval requirements. Wetland restoration is applied to wetlands...