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Prior to implementing a large scale reclamation program, the goals must be defined to develop an effective plan of action. This focuses the efforts expended on the program and gives direction to the...
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Syncrude Canada Ltd. is an oil sands surface mining and processing venture located at the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit in northeastem Alberta. The, Alberta Government maintains that mined land be...
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Fur value produced per square kilometre averaged $7.58 ($19.64/mi2) but ranged more than 500-fold, with much variation seeming attributable to trapper effort. 5% of traplines reported nil catches
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Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Xiao Jing Guo
Manuel Lamothe
Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation...
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Report focuses on evolution and current state of pertinent federal legislative Acts in the environmental, natural resource, and energy policy sectors that may impact oil sands environmental management
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purpose of this project is to determine the population size of moose in the survey area with regard given to sex and age ratios and distribution according to habitat and seasonal climatic features
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Leila Taheriazad
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
This report presents a comprehensive review of industrial applications of an emerging environmental monitoring technology called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and a WSN installed at Coal Valley Mine
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Jeffrey Green
Gail Harrison
The costs and methods of wildlife habitat reclamation are discussed for three examples. The first example, the Cascade Landfill site in Banff National Park, illustrates the approach and costs of...
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Several insect species and groups of insects are examined for their potential as biological indicators in the AOSERP area.
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The epilithic microbial and micro-invertebrate communities under conditions of light and shade were studied from April to November 1978
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
16-24 species of fish were found in each watershed. Forage fish (lake chub, pearl dace, longnose dace, trout-perch, brook stickleback, slimy sculpin) and white and longnose suckers were most abundant
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
Maps showing fish collection locations, photos and details of the physical characteristics of nine streams within five watersheds (Firebag, Muskeg, Steepbank, MacKay, and Ells) in AOSERP study area
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Hal Hamilton
Ron Wallace
D. Westlake
Julia Foght
Barry Taylor
Steve Hrudey
Relationship between hydrocarbons present naturally, or introduced due to surface oil sands mining and upgrading activities, and their potential bioaccumulation and tainting of the commercial fishery
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During 1978, a number of aquatic projects were funded by AOSERP using a habitat inventory and mapping approach.
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T.W. Chamberlin
E.A. Harding
Philosophy and structure of aquatic system inventory as conducted by the BC Resource Analysis Branch. Additional topics included data management and examples of detailed interpretive projects
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American Pika populations in Alberta will likely be capable of persisting throughout this century, although their survival will depend increasingly on successful vertical migration.
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Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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Goals of this investigation were to describe the present hydrologic and sediment regimes and to predict the consequences of surface disturbances which precede oil sands mining using runoff plots.
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Hydrocon Engineering (Continental) Ltd.
Monenco Consultants Ltd.
Document provides an evaluation of currently available rainfall runoff sediment production methodologies, identifies key parameters, and outlines field programs to gather data for model calibration
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Justin Straker
Gillian Donald
This paper presents information on RWG’s approach to the guidance and assessment of reforestation of oil sands mine disturbances