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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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Alexandre Lafontaine
Pierre Drapeau
Daniel Fortin
Sylvie Gauthier
Yan Boulanger
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Studying the response of wildlife to anthropogenic disturbances in light of their evolutionary history may help explain their capacity to adapt to novel ecological conditions. In the North American...
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Ian Thompson
Philip Wiebe
Erin Mallon
Arthur Rodgers
John Fryxell
James Baker
Douglas Reid
Resource Date:
November
2014
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Scott McNay
Stan Boutin
Predation by grey wolves Canis lupus has been identified as an important cause of boreal woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou mortality, and it has been hypothesized that wolf use of human...
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Environmental Impact Review Board
Resource Date:
January
2013
A long 2013 environmental impact assessment report on the construction of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway. The consideration of impacts on caribou, and board recommendations on dealing with these...
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Kathy Lewis
Chris Johnson
M.D. Nayeem Karim
Resource Date:
February
2019
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Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a...
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Alice Noble
Alistair Crowle
David Glaves
Sheila Palmer
Joseph Holden
Resource Date:
August
2019
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Robert Bott
Graham Chandler
Peter McKenzie-Brown
This book is written to help assess how effectively we have, or are, conserving our land base and providing the stewardship required to pass our legacy on to our progeny.
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J.E. Hurley
J.A. Loo
P. DesRochers
H.E. Hirvonen
Highlights Invasive alien insect and disease species are of increasing concern to the health and economic viability of the forest ecosystems within the ecozone. Brown spruce longhorn beetle, an alien...
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E.A. Allen
R.W. Garbutt
H.E. Hirvonen
H. Pinnell
Highlights In 2003, mountain pine beetle infested an area of over 4 million ha within British Columbia. Almost all of this infestation occurred within the pine forests of the Montane Cordillera...
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Resource Date:
October
2009
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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
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This glossary was prepared to provide those working in the field of reclamation in Alberta with a standardized set of definitions for reclamation terms.
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April
2017
This document is intended as a guide for reclamation of In Situ facilities in a peatland environment, specifically pad and road disturbances. Pilot studies conducted in Alberta were carried out by...
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Regulatory expectations with respect to the detailed content of applications for approvals of surface disturbances and the reclamation of lands.
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A 30-page report from 2012 on the Yukon portion of the herd’s range. It includes discussion of the potential impacts of forest fires. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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S. Konkolics
Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
To examine the effects of forest fires on woodland caribou, we collected GPS location data on five caribou ranges in northeastern Alberta.
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Exploration of resources creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration wells in boreal peatlands. Although construction is usually...