Land Management Search Results
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In regard to reclamation, the predisturbance inventories carried out as a function of the EIA or D&R Approval, dictate to a large extent the vegetation cover or land uses that will be established. As...
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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...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We collected high-resolution aerial imagery and associated ground-truthed data from four sampling blocks in two caribou ranges to assess human footprint accuracy and state of vegetation recovery.
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N. Moudrak
B. Feltmate
H. Venema
H. Osman
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2018
Combating Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option.
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Harald Thimm
G.J. Clark
G. Baker
The construction of a wastewater evaporation lagoon at the Quirk Creek Gas Plant a number of years ago resulted in the creation of a six acre area of overburden consisting of heavy clay, gravel and...
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Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
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Objective of the project was to better understand and describe the potential for CLPP to provide meaningful assessments of aquatic ecosystems in the oil sands region of Alberta to various stakeholders
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Noor Johnson
Carolina Behe
Finn Danielsen
Eva-Maria Krummel
Scot Nickels
Peter Pulsifer
This review of community-based monitoring (CBM) in a changing Arctic is based on a multi-year initiative launched in 2012 as a task under the “Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks” (SAON), a network...
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Bev Gingras
Cynthia Paszkowski
Garry Scrimgeour
Sharon Kendall
Objective was to compare the effectiveness of four commonly used sampling techniques (pitfall traps, funnel traps, visual searches and call surveys) to detect stream amphibian communities.
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Leonard Leskiw
T.B. Zeleke
The primary target of land reclamation in the Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) region of Canada is to re-create ecosystems which are similar to the pre-disturbance ecosystems. The main objective of this...
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Terry Macyk
Bonnie Drozdowski
This report identifies and summarizes reclamation practices that have been used in the mineable Oil Sands region and coal mining industry over the last 40+ years.
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Scenarios of expected concurrent flow along the Athabasca River are developed on the assumption that a 7Q10 event occurs at either Hinton, Whitecourt, Athabasca, or Fort McMurray
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Roger Whitehead
F. Cortini
S.W. Taylor
A.F. Linnell Nemec
J.W. Goudie
J. Vallentgoed
K.R. Polsson
The Stony Lake trial was established in 1987 to benchmark growth performance of interior spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss x engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl...
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NACW 2018 Organizing Committee
This conference program provides details about the 17 North American Caribou Workshop. It contains the agenda and abstracts for all presentations. Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge have well...
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SARA SECTION 11 (S11) CONSERVATION AGREEMENT - labrador The overarching goal of this Agreement is to articulate how the Parties will collaboratively support the recovery of boreal caribou in Labrador.
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Julie Singleton
Judy Loo
John Foley
This manual provides management guidelines aimed at protecting biodiversity in ecologically sensitive sites found on private woodlots within the 420 000-ha Fundy Model Forest of southeastern New...
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Manitoba’s Boreal Woodland Caribou Recovery Strategy is a living document that outlines management initiatives and direction for conservation of boreal caribou across Manitoba for the next 10 years...
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Although ecological transitions are expected to be widespread, under even the least-change climate scenario, ecological change is not synonymous with the loss of biodiversity.
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A pilot scale constructed wetland was built at the Strachan Gas Plant to evaluate its ability to treat dissolved phase hydrocarbons in groundwater. The overall objective was to assess the feasibility...
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Curtis Brinker
Marc Symbaluk
J.G. Boorman
Pit reclaimed such that the end pit and inlet/outlet streams would sustain in perpetuity the full range of habitat and watershed features needed to support native Athabasca Rainbow and Bull Trout