Land Management Search Results
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A relatively brief paper published by the Yukon government in 2009, it summarizes the experience of the managing five different Yukon herds (mostly non-migratory). It suggests that both harvest...
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David McNabb
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Resource Date:
November
2012
The trafficking of soils by industrial equipment generally causes an increase in soil density and loss of soil structure. The effects of moderate to severe compaction and loss of soil structure on the...
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The Tłı̨chǫ Government has prepared the Tłı̨chǫ Land Use Plan to assist in managing approximately 39,000 km 2 of Tłı ̨chǫ lands. The Tłı ̨chǫ Land Use Plan uses maps, policies and written information...
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Authors
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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Authors
Roy Brooke
Sara Jane O'Niell
Stephanie Cairns
Resource Date:
February
2018
This Project Overview document outlines the findings of, and lessons learned by, six local governments as they investigated how natural assets are benefiting their communities.
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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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This report addresses the lack of guidance from the federal recovery strategies for woodland caribou on when suitable habitat, after being disturbed by anthropogenic activities such as forest...
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Brenda Parlee
Natasha Thorpe
Tanice McNabb
A 2013 report on traditional knowledge of caribou in the Northwest Territories. It covers topics including the peoples’ relationship to caribou, populations and abundance, threats, and management...
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Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Assisted gene flow according to expected climate gradients is considered as a forest management strategy to mitigate impacts of environmental change on forest growth. However, the effects of seed...
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Amélie Mathieu
Lucas Vander Vennen
Aaron Reid
Cory Legebokow
Helen Schwantje
Southern mountain caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou, SMC) in British Columbia, Canada, are experiencing a precipitous population decline and range recession. In 2019, the two southernmost herds, the...
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Tree species employ a variety of strategies in response to climate change. When faced with a stressor (drought, fire or changes in growing conditions), species can either tolerate its effects, avoid...
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Stone fences and blinds built by prehistoric hunters to gather and ambush elk and bighorn sheep above timberline in the Colorado Front Range are similar in concept and function to structures built by...
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Authors
Deborah Cichowski
Scott McNay
Viktor Brumovsky
This Report was prepared for BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Smithers, B.C. This Tactical Restoration Plan was developed to provide guidance on...
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M.E. Keefer
N. Owens
C. Marshall
C.R. Mellott
The newly incorporated Twin Sisters Native Plant Nursery, a joint venture of the Saulteau First Nations and West Moberly First Nations, was created to meet a growing demand for native plant species...
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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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Authors
Andrea Reid
Lauren Eckert
John-Francis Lane
Nathan Young
Scott Hinch
Chris Darimont
Steven Cooke
Natalie Ban
Albert Marshall
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we...
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Cheryl Bartlett
Murdena Marshall
Alberta Marshall
This is a process article for weaving indigenous and mainstream knowledges within science educational curricula and other science arenas, assuming participants include recognized holders of...
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Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.
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Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement commits signatories to promote recovery of boreal caribou through regional caribou action planning across Canada. The following primer describes how the national...
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Laura Finnegan
Jennifer Hird
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
The paper by the fRI Research Caribou Program investigates seismic lines for their abundance of forage plants, which could attract predators of caribou such as bears as well as alternate prey for...