Land Management Search Results
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Marie-Eve Gauthier
Line Rochefort
Leonie Nadeau
Sandrine Hugron
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
February
2017
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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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Authors
Richard Johnson
Peter Bork
Paul Layte
Oil sands processing operations in northeastern Alberta generate 25 x 106 m3 of water-fines mixtures (sludge) per year. The fines settle in several weeks but will not consolidate to more than 35%...
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Sophie Wilkinson
Paul Moore
Dan Thompson
Mike Wotton
Stefan Hvenegaard
David Schroeder
James Waddington
Resource Date:
December
2018
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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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Authors
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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Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat...
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Study Focus: Six years of hydrochemical data (2013 – 2018) from the Sandhill Fen Watershed (SFW), a 52-ha upland-peatland catchment that was built upon highly saline soft tailings, were used to...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Study concentrated on the well-documented 1981 right-of-way, and compared it to the oldest trench, installed in 1957, and to the undisturbed adjacent mixed prairie
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Authors
Teemu Juselius-Rajamäki
Minna Väliranta
Atte Korhola
Resource Date:
October
2023
Peatlands are the most dense terrestrial carbon stock and since the last glacial epoch northern peatlands have accumulated between 400 and 1000 Gt of carbon. Although the horizontal development...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Mandates: 1. Creating oil sands environmental management knowledge, 2. Sharing oil sands environmental management information, and 3. Networking to link researchers with funders and other researchers
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Authors
Majid Iravani
Monica Kohler
Shannon White
The results showed a pronounced variation in the historic supply of soil organic carbon and aboveground biomass in the watershed. Land management resulted in a diverse range of gains or losses.
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Reclamation of the land surface is what makes non-renewable resource developments sustainable. We must continue to strive to improve our science so that we can prove to regulators and the public that
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Authors
G.D. Gann
T. McDonald
Bethanie Walder
J. Aronson
C.R. Nelson
J. Jonson
J.G. Hallett
C. Eisenberg
M.R. Guariguata
J. Liu
F. Hua
C. Echeverria
E.K. Gonzales
N. Shaw
K. Decleer
K.W. Dixon
The Restorative Continuum includes a range of activities and interventions that can improve environmental conditions and reverse ecosystem degradation and landscape fragmentation. The continuum...
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Authors
Kristine Haynes
Jessica Smart
Brenden Disher
Olivia Carpino
William Quinton
Resource Date:
December
2020
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Authors
Dale Vitt
Melissa House
Lilyan Glaeser
Minerogenous peatlands that accumulate deep deposits of organic matter (fens) were an important part of the pre-disturbance landscape across Alberta’s oil sands mining area. Bryophytes occupy 80–100%...
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Jevins Waddell
Carl Davison
B.J. Min
A major theme for working in northern remote sites is overcoming logistical and technical challenges related to short season and limited access to remediate petroleum hydrocarbon impacted soil and...
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Paul Yeung
Richard Johnson
Commercially-produced enzymes were not effective in degrading oil in contaminated soil. Soil water repellency was reduced immediately by the enzyme treatment however it returned.
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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...