Land Management Search Results
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Paul Addison
S.S. Malhotra
Deciduous trees and shrubs were much more sensitive than conifers, presumably because SO2 can enter broad leaves much more easily than needles. Jack pine was more sensitive than spruce
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Alberta Environment and Parks
Canada is a party to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which identifies the conservation and restoration of biological diversity as a global priority. It is incumbent on the provinces and...
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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
This version of the Inventory of Native Grass Seed Mixes in Alberta spreadsheet, released on October 27, 2017, was developed by Chris Powter (Enviro Q&A Services), Marshall McKenzie and Christina...
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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
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December
2018
The Government of Alberta has long been a strong proponent of the use of native species for land reclamation and restoration projects. In 1973, the Department of Agriculture began an evaluation of...
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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
This version of the Inventory of Native Grass Seed Mixes in Alberta spreadsheet, released in December, 2018, was developed by Chris Powter (Enviro Q&A Services), Marshall McKenzie and Christina Small...
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Barry Munson
Dave Ealey
R. Beaver
R. Fyfe
A three-year inventory of selected rare, endangered and sensitive bird species in the Athabasca Oil Sands area was completed in the late summer of 1977. Aerial and ground surveys were conducted
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A water balance for the Athabasca River was developed which accounted for all the major withdrawals and discharges to this river. Current annual rate of withdrawal from the river is 2.34m3/s
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P.L. Sharp
Alan Birdsall
W.J. Richardson
Ground surveys were conducted of 30 water bodies on and near the lease, including lakes, ponds, the Athabasca River, roadside borrow pits, and shallow marshes created by clearing and water diversion
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Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
Knowledge Exchange Workshop focused on centralization, collection, distribution and synthesis of knowledge, information and data related to reclamation
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In this study, phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) and carbon isotopes were used to characterize the response of in situ microbial communities to a pilot-scale wetland reclamation project in the Alberta...
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Determine what spring spawners utilized these sections of the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers; locate and describe their spawning grounds; and describe the timing of spawning, hatching, and emergence
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John Gibson
Jean Birks
Michael Moncur
Yi Yi
K. Tattrie
S. Jasechko
K. Richardson
P. Eby
Pilot study to assess potential for labelling process-affected water from oil sands operations using a suite of isotopic and geochemical tracers
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December
2022
The Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland has now been expanded, adding around 152,000 hectares to the largest contiguous area of protected land in the world. The expanded area was previously managed as Green...
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Jon Hornung
Carla Wytrykush
G. Haekel
Theo Charette
Marsha Trites
Subject matter experts were asked to participate in a multi-year process to review, interpret and synthesise results on marsh (open water wetland) reclamation and research in the oil sands region
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Planned increases in oil sands developments with increased outputs of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, led to a definitive study to assess the susceptibility of nearby lakes to acidification
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Zhan Li
Joanne White
Michael Wulder
Txomin Hermosilla
Andrew Davidson
Alexis Comber
Large-area land cover maps are produced to satisfy different information needs. Land cover maps having partial or complete spatial and/or temporal overlap, different legends, and varying accuracies...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
This flowchart outlines each step of the treatment process for forest land (upland) landscape as incorporated in the corresponding Decision Support Systems (DSS). View more tools by NAIT Centre for...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
This flowchart outlines each step of the treatment process for forest land (upland) soil as incorporated in the corresponding Decision Support Systems (DSS). View more tools by NAIT Centre for Boreal...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
This flowchart outlines each step of the treatment process for forest land (upland) vegetation as incorporated in the corresponding Decision Support Systems (DSS). View more tools by NAIT Centre for...
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Camile Sothe
Alemu Gonsamo
Joyce Arabian
James Snider
Resource Date:
August
2021
Canada has extensive forests and peatlands that play key roles in global carbon cycle. Canadian soils and peatlands are assumed to store approximately 20% of the world’s soil carbon stock. However...