Land Management Search Results
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Study concentrated on the well-documented 1981 right-of-way, and compared it to the oldest trench, installed in 1957, and to the undisturbed adjacent mixed prairie
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Reclamation of the land surface is what makes non-renewable resource developments sustainable. We must continue to strive to improve our science so that we can prove to regulators and the public that
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Paul Pickell
David Andison
Nicholas Coops
Sarah Gergel
Peter Marshall
Resource development can have significant consequences for the distribution of vegetation cover and for species persistence. Modelling changes to anthropogenic disturbance regimes over time can...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
This report presents data on several indicators of environmental health for the Kakwa River Project area where ARC Resources operates in northwestern Alberta. The Kakwa River Project area covers...
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NOVA, AN ALBERTA CORPORATION embarked on a research and development project approximately one and one-half years ago to develop a machine capable of stripping frozen topsoil . The result was a...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Al Fedkenheuer
Robert Faye
Nancy Finlayson
Sheila Luther
T.J. Patterson
Objective was to evaluate several pipeline topsoil stripping depths to determine whether they result in land capability equivalent to that of adjacent forested lands broken for cultivation
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Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Topsoil stripping of forested soils and its subsequent replacement would result in horizon characteristics similar to those of the plough depth resulting from farming practices
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Ronald Swist
Cameron MacKay
Examine existing legislation to determine (1) what machinery is available for the creation of a transportation corridor, (2) what problems accrue or could accrue by virtue of that legislation
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Bolter Parish Trimble Ltd.
Ducks Unlimited (Canada)
Tom Peters and Associates
Siemens Realty & Appraisal Services Ltd.
Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
Contains the following sections: Environment Characteristics and Conditions; Soils; Wildlife; and, Preliminary Review and Land Evaluation
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Bolter Parish Trimble Ltd.
Ducks Unlimited (Canada)
Tom Peters and Associates
K.C. Mackenzie Associates Ltd.
Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
Contains the following chapters: Environment Characteristics and Conditions; Soils; Wildlife; and Human Settlement Pattern of the Expanded Study Area
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K.C. Mackenzie Associates Limited
General purpose of this report is to examine various constraints, resulting from human settlement patterns, which will affect the selection of a route for the proposed oil sands pipeline corridor.
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Oil and gas activities in Alberta require disturbing forested lands, among other ecosystems, in order to extract resources. Due to the number of oil and gas sites requiring reclamation, monitoring can...
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Objectives of the Twelve Mile Coulee Soil Research Project are to evaluate the impact of pipeline construction on Solonetzic soil quality and salt movement in the Brown soil zone
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Randi Lupardus
Ermias Azeria
Kierann Santala
Isabelle Aubin
Anne McIntosh
Results suggest that even as practices and policies evolve, reclamation does not fully alleviate the legacy effects of industrial disturbance. Trait-based approaches can inform recovery assessment.
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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William Wadsworth
Ave Dersch
Robin Woywitka
Kisha Supernant
The Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) region of Alberta has one of the densest accumulations of known archaeological sites, and possibly the most archaeological sites at risk, in the country. Expanding...
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Field data on the abundance (or percent cover) of vascular plants, bryophytes, and soil mesofauna were obtained in the summer of 2008 and 2009 from nine produced water release sites in Alberta and...
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The presentation describes the development and content of the draft Biodiversity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca Region
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This presentation was a part of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, Hydraulic Fracturing in Western Canada: an Environmental Perspective Forum, in May of 2014.