Land Management Search Results
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Michael Merchant
Lyle Boychuk
The Government of Alberta’s current wetland inventory is a publicly available, generalized dataset collated from the best available spatial wetland data across the province. The Alberta Merged Wetland...
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April
2017
This webinar provides an overview of a resource roads and wetlands field guide completed by Ducks Unlimited Canada and FPInnovations.
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Knowledge gaps concerning how various human activities combine to impact freshwater ecosystems can result in reported damaging “ecological surprises.” Although ecological surprises are typically...
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Viraj Muthye
James Wasmuth
There is a microscopic menace harming Alberta's fish. In fact, these parasites, called myxozoans, threaten fish and aquaculture globally. In our talk, you will discover the challenges posed by...
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Boreal forests are regularly subjected to natural disturbances, which affect forest structure, composition, age distribution, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. Forest biodiversity shows continual...
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October
2022
Presented by Matt Dyson, PhD, Research Scientist with Ducks Unlimited Canada Matt Dyson's research investigated the effects of oil and gas development on the nesting ecology of boreal ducks. He...
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January
2017
Ducks Unlimited Canada's Best Management Practices Team (BMP) was developed in 2012 to help industry’s growing efforts to implement practices that support the responsible management of wetlands...
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January
2021
Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Satellite-Based Wetland Inventories: Advancements and Applications Presented by Becky Edwards, Ducks Unlimited Canada Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is leading the effort to...
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June 20th, 2024 at 10:00am MST to June 20th, 2024 at 11:00am MST
Join us for an enlightening and informative session on ECO Canada’s BEAHR program, specifically designed to empower Indigenous youth with the skills and knowledge needed to kickstart a successful...
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May 16th, 2024 at 2:00pm EST to May 16th, 2024 at 3:00pm EST
Recovery actions have steered southern mountain caribou away from extinction, but we still have a long way to go. Researchers pooled data from over fifty years to follow the fate of 40 caribou herds...
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Authors
Clayton Lamb
Sara Williams
Stan Boutin
Michael Bridger
Deborah Cichowski
Kristina Cornhill
Craig DeMars
Melanie Dickie
Bevan Ernst
Adam Ford
Michael Gillingham
Laura Greene
Douglas Heard
Mark Hebblewhite
Dave Hervieux
Mike Klaczek
Bruce McLellan
Scott McNay
Lalenia Neufeld
Barry Nobert
Joshua Nowak
Agnes Pelletier
Caroline Seip
Carolyn Shores
Robin Steenweg
Shane White
Heiko Wittmer
Mark Wong
Kathryn Zimmerman
Robert Serrouya
Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this threatened caribou...
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October 5th, 2023 at 3:00pm MST to October 5th, 2023 at 4:00pm MST
Edmonton, AB
Join Troy Stuart, the Land Manager for Bigstone Cree Nation, for an in-person OR virtual webinar. In person : South Academic Building 1-50, University of Alberta Campus Virtually: https://us02web.zoom...
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Whitebark pine and limber pine are unique, slow-growing tree species found in Alberta’s mountains and foothills. Populations are rapidly declining, due to several threats, from invasive disease to...
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October 6th, 2021 at 12:00pm MST to October 6th, 2021 at 1:00pm MST
ABMI taxonomist Rob Hinchliffe discusses the ABMI's aquatic invertebrate research, and why collecting data on aquatic invertebrates in the province is important to Albertans and helps to support land-use decision makABMI Episode 4
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November 3rd, 2021 at 12:00pm MST to November 3rd, 2021 at 1:00pm MST
ABMI taxonomist Krista Williams discusses the ABMI's bryophyte (moss) research, and why collecting data on bryophytes in the province is important to Albertans and helps to support land-use decision making.
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September
2018
Oil sands mining in Alberta has disturbed large areas of peatlands, the dominant regional ecosystem type, and no formal strategies exist to reconstruct the landscape. Peatland reclamation is...
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April 16th, 2024 at 12:00pm MST to April 16th, 2024 at 1:00pm MST
On April 16th, get ready to explore the realm of open avian data with CanAvian. As pioneers in this field, the founding members (BAM, ABMI, Birds Canada) will provide insights into the CanAvian...
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March
2021
Rapid functional assessment tools like WESP (Wetland Ecosystem Services Protocol) give the ability to quantify several wetland functions and benefits, such as water storage, carbon sequestration and...
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Authors
Jason Leach
Danielle Hudson
Jason Leach and Danielle Hudson present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the influence of tree planting on floods / droughts. In this talk, the speakers explore how afforestation and...
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Climate-induced northern forest change may be severe, altering resources for boreal caribou. Mitigating the conservation challenges associated with caribou could be dampened through forecasts of...