Land Management Search Results
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Guide to answer: • Why has there been a shift in how we manage woody materials? • How can woody materials be managed effectively on sites? • What do effective woody material applications look like?
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Colonization of limestone bricks and bitumen coated limestone bricks by benthic river organisms was followed over time.
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Chris Powter
John Doornbos
Anne Naeth
To encourage discussion on Aboriginal participation in land reclamation and to continue identifying mechanisms to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives into land reclamation
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Robin Marles
Christina Clavelle
Leslie Monteleone
Natalie Tays
Donna Burns
This book describes the traditional Native American uses of more than 200 plants from Northern forests. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared with other communities...
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The objective of this report is to determine if the current values for soil salinity, sodicity and pH need to be revised to reflect plant species’ tolerances for these soil parameters
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Jessica Stolar
Scott Nielsen
Results suggest that sample weighting can be used to account for spatially biased presence-only datasets in species distribution modelling
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John Sprague
Douglas Holdway
Douglas Stendahl
Overall among the metals, vanadium was of moderate noncumulative toxicity. There should be an assessment whether aerial fallout of vanadium could create undesirable levels in slow-turnover lakes
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Alberta Environmental Centre
Determine the acute and subacute toxicity of bitumen from banks of the Athabasca River downstream of Fort McMurray to rainbow trout. Concluded bitumen was not acutely toxic to fish under dosage tested
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Mine depressurization water obtained from five wells on Lease 17 held by Syncrude Canada Limited, was examined for chemical composition and acute toxicity to two species of fish.
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Purpose of this project is to provide information regarding the acute lethality of oil sands mining and extraction plant wastewaters to fish. This Volume contains the backup data for Volume I.
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Dike filter drainage was acutely toxic to rainbow trout and brook sticklebacks. At the point of entry of the effluent, the sample was acutely lethal to rainbow trout and slightly toxic to sticklebacks
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Erin Bayne
Diana Stralberg
Amy Nixon
Use of ABMI samples to understand genetic variation and changes in genetic structure is identified as an area where ABMI data can be used to understand how biodiversity is adapting to climate change
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This summary is part of a series designed to provide local governments with easy-to-access information to help with adoption of municipal natural asset management.
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The redevelopment of understories is an often-overlooked aspect of forest restoration following anthropogenic disturbances. In my research I explored the feasibility of actively restoring forest...
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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
AEC Blueridge alpine bluegrass (Poa alpina L.) is a reclamation variety developed for use in reclaiming and revegetating disturbed sites at high elevations. It is the first variety of alpine bluegrass...
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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
AEC Hillcrest awned slender wheatgrass l Elymus tichycaulus subsp. subsecandus (Link) Gould] is a-reclamation variety developed for use in reclaiming and revegJtating oisturtea sites in the mountains...
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Harold Etter
George Lesko
Reclamation planning for tar sands mining and extraction operation differs greatly from that used in Alberta foothills and plains coal mines. One of the main differences is that the bulk of the...
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Natalie Shelby-James
Sarah Thacker
Chris Powter
Paul Fuellbrandt
Tomislav Hengl
Leandro Parente
Objective is to work collaboratively with soil data users to develop the Alberta Background Soil Quality System (ABSQS) as a tool to assist industry and government in environmental management
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Jason Fisher
Cole Burton
Luke Nolan
Michelle Hiltz
Laurence Roy
White-tailed deer expansion in the boreal forest is due to an interaction between less severe winters following climate change, and a substantial forage subsidy provided by widespread anthropogenic features
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Richard Houlihan
Chris Hale
Paper reviews ERCB processes for mine regulation, Board decisions relating to reclamation and abandonment, and new regulations for tailings at oil sands mining operations.