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Joanne White presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on post-disturbance forest recovery. In this talk, the audience is introduced to using remotely sensed data to assess and monitor...
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Nature-based climate solutions (NBCSs) are increasingly viewed as potentially significant contributors to combating climate change. They are of particular interest in countries such as Canada, which...
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Klaus Puettman presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on novel silviculture. Given that climate is changing and extreme events are becoming more common, silvicultural goals also need...
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Dasvinder Kambo
Steve D'Eon
A lecture, hosted by the Canadian Institute of Forestry, on various 2 Billion Trees related applied research projects. This presentation, along with many others from the Canadian Institute of Forestry...
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In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada, increasing socio-political conflict regarding feral horse management and significance of the ecological role now being played by horses...
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The 2023 wildfire season in Canada is now the worst ever recorded, with over fifteen million hectares burned. In the last 65 years, only four other fire seasons in Canada have produced burned areas...
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Chronic wasting disease – a fatal prion disease that affects cervids – has impacts on a number of different stakeholder groups. This presentation will provide an overview of our research on the social...
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Nicolas Feau presents a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the 'Strong Seeds for Our Future Forests' program. The talk describes the diversity and functions of the conifer seed mycobiome...
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Grassland birds are among the steepest declining bird groups in North America, largely due to habitat loss associated with grassland conversion to cropland and shrub encroachment. To overcome this...
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Matthew Pyper
Jason Barrie
Jesse Tigner
Restoration of linear features is gaining significant momentum in the context of caribou conservation, and there is significant focus on this topic within the academic literature. However, the cost of...
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One of the neat things about working in environmental monitoring is the sheer range of tools available to use, and the rate at which they’re evolving. One example that’s rapidly changing monitoring...
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The presentation discusses some of the relationships bison have with the species they share space and time with, with a focus on the northern mixed-grass prairie ecosystem. As a keystone species...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative disease that affects wild and farmed cervids. It is spreading across North America at increasing rates, with cases detected...
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Matthew Pyper
Katalijn MacAfee
Matthew Pyper and Katalijn MacAfee present a lecture to the Canadian Institute of Forestry on the background of the 2 Billion Trees program and various silvicultural tools and practices to increase...
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Join Alex MacPhail for an overview of ultrasonic data management and processing on WildTrax! Our newest features let you manage and tag data from bat or small mammal monitoring projects.
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Authors
Jeremy Brammer
Allyson Menzies
Laurence Carter
Xavier Giroux-Bougard
Manuelle Landry-Cuerrier
Melanie-Louise Leblanc
Mikhaela Neelin
Emily Studd
Murray Humphries
Traditional food systems based on harvest from the local environment are fundamental to the well-being of many communities, but their security is challenged by rapid socio-ecological change. We...
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Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanada Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
This article in Canadian Reclamation (Issue 1, Vol 12, pages 10-13) describes the wellsite clay pad removal and inversion technique applied by the NAIT Centre for Boreal Research in a peatland...
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Tracy McKay
Ellinor Sahlén
Ole-Gunnar Støen
Jon Swenson
Gordon Stenhouse
Oil and gas development is widespread in west – central Alberta, yet little is known about the potential impacts of oil and gas activities on grizzly bear habitat use. Focusing on the impacts of one...
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The issue of how to best manage the wastes resulting from the bitumen extraction processes is complex. When clays contained in the oil sands are subjected to the Clark Hot Water Extraction Process a...
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Jay Woosaree
Marshall McKenzie
The 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities for Native Grasslands was released in June of 2011 to relieve then current backlog of processing Reclamation Certificate...