Land Management Search Results
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Sean Rapai
Duncan McColl
Richard McMullin
Resource Date:
November
2017
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The sustainability of a landscape and its host community post-mining depends on careful and effective mine closure and reclamation planning. Such planning has the potential to support the renewal of...
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Literature review provides an understanding of ecological resilience as a concept to promote successful land reclamation in Alberta’s mineable oil sands region
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Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby‐James
Bin Xu
Chris Powter
The pilot study validated the research questions, sampling design, measurement and data analysis methods developed for a large‐scale study, with some minor amendments.
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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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Line Rochefort
Maria Strack
Pete Whittington
Martin Brummell
Laurence Turmel-Courchesne
Melanie Hawes
Marie-Claire LeBlanc
The Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG), based in Université Laval (Québec City), has been conducting research on peatland management practices since 1992. Over the years, in partnership with the...
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Ann Smreciu
Kimberly Gould
This study evaluated the effect of sowing season (spring versus fall) and propagule type (clean seeds versus whole fruit) on emergence of 41 species on oil sands mine reclamation sites.
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The need for tree species selection on a site specific basis to regenerate the province’s forests is now recognized throughout British Columbia. However, little research has been done to assess the...
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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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I I tested forest floor protection techniques in the construction and reclamation of temporary drilling pads to restore native boreal canopy and understory cover. By covering and delineating the...
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D.R. Hoffman
C.H. Shaw
S.J. Kull
M.F. Voicu
C. McNalty
The Forest Floor Recovery Index (FFRI) aims to assess ecosystem recovery using changes in forest floor properties during stand development following reclamation. Modeled predictions from the Carbon...
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Authors
Stefan Schreiber
Barb Thomas
Resource Date:
March
2017
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Nicolas Mansuy
Hyejin Hwang
Ritikaa Gupta
Christa Mooney
Barbara Kishchuk
Eric Higgs
Restoring degraded ecosystems is an urgent policy priority to regain ecological integrity, advance sustainable land use management, and mitigate climate change. This study examined current legislation...
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The purpose of this report is to provide practising silviculturists in north-central British Columbia with critical knowledge required to improve regeneration success rates in subalpine forests. High...
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Karla Buffalo
Carol Jones
John Errington
M.I.A. MacLean
In the future, Fort McKay will continue to strive for faster reclamation that will restore the land to pre-mining conditions and seek the complete elimination of fluid fine tailings stored in an EPL
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Resource Date:
December
2016
Presentation from the Seismic Line Restoration Technical Session Edmonton, AB December 1 st , 2016 Organized by the Canadian Institute of Forestry This technical session will facilitate discussion and...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Current state of knowledge about shrubs and their use in oil sands reclamation noted a number of regulatory requirements and policies that support shrub use but a far larger list of impediments
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Brad Pinno
Edith Li
Bhupesh Khadka
Amanda Schoonmaker
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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Resource Date:
November
2021
The Convention on Wetlands (The Convention) and other national, regional and global policy frameworks promote the restoration of degraded peatlands. Rewetting peatland to reduce greenhouse gas...
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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...