Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
This report provides a chronological record of media headlines related to a variety of pipelines and pipeline proposals in Canada and the United States from April 2010 to December 19, 2014.
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Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Connie Nichol
The goal of this operations guide is to assist those who seek to establish and manage fast growing, high-yield afforestation plantations for the vegetation of phosphogypsum (PG) stacks. The approach...
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Tim Keddy
Derek Sidders
Connie Nichol
The video for this guide can be found here: www.cclmportal.ca/resource/reclamation-phosphogypsum-stacks-using-afforestation-video The goal of this operations guide is to assist those who seek to...
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Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Niloshini Sinnatamby
Mark Poesch
Best predictors for fisheries productivity remain the quantity and quality of available fish habitat combined with abundance, size structure data and species composition within the given habitats
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Abdul Samad
Dani Degenhardt
Armand Séguin
Marie-Josée Morency
Patrick Gagné
Christine Martineau
The oil sands mining operations in Alberta have produced billions of m3 of tailings which must be reclaimed and integrated into various mine closure landforms, including terrestrial landforms...
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Objectives of the waterfowl surveys are: 1) To monitor waterfowl migrations through the Syncrude Lease 17 and general area during all seasons of use. 2) To establish the locations and intensity of use
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
These are the minimum requirements that the Land Conservation and Reclamation Council will apply in assessing whether the reclamation of lands has been satisfactory
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Minimum reclamation standards that should be followed to ensure proper conservation and reclamation on patented and and land that was the property of the Crown but covered by the Public Lands Act
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Ken Foster
Christine Godwin
Peter Pyle
The MAPS protocol (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) was applied in a 2011 pilot program in the boreal forest in the oil sands region
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Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Dani Degenhardt
Chris Powter
Christina Small
John Begg
Dan Farr
Arnold Janz
Randi Lupardus
Delinda Ryerson
Jim Schiek
We developed a scientifically robust and financially sustainable monitoring protocol to enable a consistent assessment of ecological recovery at reclaimed industrial wellsites in forested lands
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Nadia Rochdi
J. Zhang
Karl Staenz
X. Yang
D. Rolfson
J. Banting
C. King
R. Doherty
Scope of the project is to develop a geomatics-based monitoring system to support the Government of Alberta’s efforts for monitoring reclamation success. Software will support decision making process
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Measuring variability in natural processes requires rigorous data collection and could increase the cost of environmental monitoring for oil and gas operators. Recent advances in remote-sensing and...
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Megan Hornseth
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Terrence Larsen
Gordon Stenhouse
Jerome Cranston
Laura Finnegan
Natural regeneration of seismic lines, cleared for hydrocarbon exploration, is slow and often hindered by vegetation damage, soil compaction, and motorized human activity. There is an extensive...
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Scott Nielsen
Treed peatlands are dominated by bryophytes, particularly Sphagnum spp., which create the characteristic hummock-hollow microtopography. This, in turn, shapes the distribution of bryophyte communities...
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In most years, evaporation exceeds summer rainfall. Using natural aspen stands as a comparison, it is expected that water use from the soil cover will continue to increase as the ecosystem ages.
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Produce mycorrhizal jack pine seedlings in the greenhouse and initiate a field study on the Syncrude dyke on the effect of different ectomycorrhizal fungi on the growth of jack pine
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4-year project to collect, multiply, evaluate, and select native legume species for inclusion in a native seed mixture being developed at AEC for reclamation in the mountains and foothills
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Slightly more invasion occurred on oil sands tailings sand sites seeded to native grasses and legumes, but much more invasion occurred on non-seeded sites
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Native Plant Working Group
These guidelines provide a clear, consistent and integrated information package about using native plant materials throughout Alberta where the revegetation goal is to re-establish a native plant...
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New science led by Nature United reveals nature can deliver immediate impact in Canada’s fight to tackle the climate crisis. Natural Climate Solutions are actions to protect, better manage and restore...