Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vern Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a reclamation research program near Grande Cache, Alberta in conjunction with the surface mining operations of Smoky River Coal Limited since 1972. Use of...
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Vinod Mahat
Axel Anderson
Rivers in Southern Alberta are vulnerable to climate change because much of the river water originates as snow in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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David Chanasyk
Harvey Martens
John Hastie
The Highvale mine, located 65 km west of Edmonton along the south side of Lake Wabamum, produces approximately 12 m1llion tons of coal per year as fuel for the Sundance and Keephills generating plants...
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Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Resource Date:
December
2013
Reclamation of in-situ facilities poses several unique challenges in comparison to conventional oil and gas and oil sands mining. This document summarizes current knowledge and practices employed for...
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Martyn Riddle
Ed Osborne
Brian Geddes
The objective of industrial site decommissioning is to leave the site in a safe condition consistent with its proposed future use. Environmental and human health concerns are key ingredients in any...
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Mathias Mayer
Cindy Prescott
Wafa Abaker
Laurent Augusto
Lauric Cécillon
Gabriel Ferreira
Jason James
Robert Jandl
Klaus Katzensteiner
Jean-Paul Laclau
Jérôme Laganière
Yann Nouvellon
David Paré
John Stanturf
Elena Vanguelova
Lars Vesterdal
Almost half of the total organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forest soils. By altering rates of input or release of C from soils, forest management activities can influence soil...
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This document Is a guideline for the preparation of a Development and Reclamation (D & R) Application for a regulated pipeline
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Ranjeet Nagare
Young-Jin Park
Rob Wirtz
Dallas Heisler
Glen Miller
The upland and wetlands substrate in reclaimed oil sands landforms will be constructed of post-mining materials with an objective of replicating the landscape and hydrology of the surrounding boreal...
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North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA)
This Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP) lays out recommendations and an approach to manage the North Saskatchewan River (NSR) Watershed.
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Annie Claude Bélisle
Sylvie Gauthier
Hugo Asselin
This study compares the perspectives of Indigenous and scientific communities on environmental changes in boreal landscapes of Quebec, Canada to determine where collaboration between Indigenous...
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Government of British Columbia
This primer is for staff of local governments in BC and is intended to help them capitalize on the real and immediate benefits of managing their natural assets.
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During the 1980's, environmental issues grew rapidly in importance, and more sophisticated modelling scenarios were developed as an aid in predicting the transport and persistence behaviour of...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
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 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
Resource Date:
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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Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
Resource Date:
April
2021
This document was developed by CCME’s Cumulative Effects Working Group (CEWG).
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Roberta Pedlar-Hobbs
Ian Ludgate
Kevin Ramsay
Developing and implementing a successful reclamation plan is dependent on a number of key factors, including defining clear objectives, assessing available options to meet those objectives, gathering...
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Thomas Gable
Steve Windels
Wolves ( Canis lupus) can be primary predators of beavers ( Castor canadensis), but little is known about wolf-beaver dynamics. We identified kills from 1 wolf (V009) of the Ash River Pack in...