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This technical note provides planting and tending recommendations for sugar maple.
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In 1986, a field trial was established near Second Falls, N.B. to assess the potential of using pulpmill wood waste as a soil ameliorant for land reclamation. Three types of wood waste were spread on...
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Plow-in pipeline approach resulted in a fescue-bluegrass vegetation community that had the best rough fescue recovery and greatest similarity to undisturbed natural grassland
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D. Meidinger
K. Iverson
C. Cadrin
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Nelson Thiffault
Caludie-Maude Canuel
Michael Hoepting
James Farrell
This fact sheet provides an overview of a study on the management implications of pre-commercial thinning in balsam fir. While the effects of pre-commercial thinning on stand growth and quality are...
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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The jack pine budworm is the most damaging pest of jack pine in eastern Canada, but especially so in the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Outbreaks of this budworm occur approximately...
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Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine size of reserves. These linear disturbances fragment forests and in many cases fail to regenerate trees...
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Jim Schieck
T. Muhly
Dave Huggard
P. Solymos
D. Pan
Scott Heckbert
Erin Bayne
We used information from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) on birds, plants, human footprint, and vegetation, plus information from Dr. Bayne on birds, to test a new method for...
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The effects of weed control on the growth and survival of black spruce ( Picea mariana (Mill.) B. S. P.) were examined up to 11 years after planting. The experiment was conducted in Kenogaming...
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Heather Tokay
Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Chris Powter
Bonnie Drozdowski
Natalie Shelby-James
In 2021, PTAC sought verification of the Guide to Preparing Variance Justifications and stakeholders were asked to apply the document to current sites in their work portfolio.
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La tordeuse du pin gris est la plus dommageable ravageur de pin gris dans l’est du Canada, mais surtout dans les provinces de l’Ontario, du Manitoba et de la Saskatchewan. Des éclosions de cette...
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From 1981 to 1984, nineteen experimental plantations were established on a range of eight typical reforested sectors in seven regions of Quebec. Included in the experiments, which took place during...
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Upland mesic sites showed a relatively strong ability to regenerate on their own (passive restoration), while lowland (bogs and fens) and upland dry sites were slow to recover.
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Authors
Denys Yemshanov
Robert Haight
Frank Koch
Marc-André Parisien
Tom Swystun
Quinn Barber
Cole Burton
Salimur Choudhury
Ning Liu
Exploration for belowground oil and gas deposits in boreal forests of western Canada involves the creation of seismic lines, which are linear disturbances where seismic equipment operates. Seismic...
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Al Fedkenheuer
S.J. Brown
The extraction of bitumen from the Athabasca Oil Sands can be considered successful only if workable and economically feasible methods of reclamation of the area following mining are developed
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Paul Ziemkiewicz
Con Dermott
Percy Sims
The workshop recorded in these proceedings was organized as the first step in developing a Native Shrub Research Program for reclamation.
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Given the extensive experience of workshop participants, it was surprising to see how little confidence they had in using only their knowledge and experience to make reclamation certification decision
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Mike Ostafichuk
George LaRoi
Of the 16 permanent plots established in 1981, four of these, Nos. 1,6,11, and 13 were destroyed by fire shortly after they were surveyed. In 1982, four new plots were established to replace the...
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Purpose was: to obtain information on propagation of certain native and exotic woody plants; synthesize the information at the species level by method of propagation; and recommend further studies