Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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C. Smyth
J.M. Metsaranta
M. Fortin
Sophie Le Noble
H. MacDonald
J. Wolfe
C. Boisvenue
J. Laganiere
Jodie Krakowski
X. Zhu
D. Paré
Piotr Tompalski
E.J.S. Emilson
K. Webster
Monique Dosanjh
L. Venier
J. Edwards
Forests and wood products are an important part of Canada’s climate change policy measures and commitments. Understanding the contribution of the forest sector to the carbon cycle is important and...
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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the Capacity Grant Application Form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested in...
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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the 2BT Tree Planting Application form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested...
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Report reviews current literature, describe operations and controls, and suggest survey and research objectives for reclamation of lands disturbed by surface mining of coal in the Rocky Mountains
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Joanne White
Michael Wulder
Andrés Varhola
Mikko Vastaranta
Nicholas Coops
Bruce Cook
Doug Pitt
Murray Woods
A best practice guide brings together state-of-the-art approaches, methods, and data to provide non-experts more detailed information about complex topics. With this guide, our goal is to inform and...
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Many after-uses of aggregate extraction land do exist: forestry, agriculture, recreation, nature reserves, housing and waste disposal sites. Attempts at reclaiming this land for alternate uses has...
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Roger Whitehead
George Harper
In 1986, a field trial was established to test options for brushing young, shrub-dominated Engelmann spruce plantations in the moist warm Interior Cedar Hemlock biogeoclimatic subzone of British...
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This three-part document provides a template to guide cumulative watershed effects assessments (CWEA) within Alberta's Eastern Slopes.
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This document outlines an approach to range planning for boreal woodland caribou (hereafter “boreal caribou”) in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It provides a common framework for how individual...
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Government of Northwest Territories
The Framework for Boreal Caribou Range Planning: Discussion Document is the appendices discussion to the Framework for Boreal Caribou Range Planning in Northwest Territories. It discusses: Population...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
A 39-page academic paper from 2016 designed to help assess the impact of hunting on barren-ground caribou herds, based on the population size and trend of a given herd.
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Seeding is less reliable than planting, and natural regeneration even less so, but these regeneration methods may be suitable, low-cost alternatives on some reclaimed sites. both seeding and natural...
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Soil compaction frequently results from industrial disturbance on mineral soils, whether due to infrastructure or equipment traffic. Soil compaction tends to be most severe on sites with high clay...
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Soil salvage is a pre-disturbance technique to conserve a site's topsoil, which is critical for maintaining nutrient cycling, organic matter, soil biota and plant propagules. In some cases, subsoil...
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K. Chapman
K.A. Baldwin
S. Basquill
M. Major
W.J. Meades
C. Morneau
J.-P. Saucier
P.W.C. Uhlig
M.C. Wester
Upland boreal forest communities (Associations) of Eastern Canada are classified within Macrogroup M495 [Eastern North American Boreal Forest] of the Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC)...
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Craig DeMars
John Boulanger
Robert Serrouya
Effective wildlife management requires monitoring changes in the spatial distribution of species, their population size and their population trend (Williams et al. 2002; Sinclair et al. 2006)...
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In 1941, the Canadian Forestry Service (CFS) established a commercial thinning trial in a 77-year-old lodgepole pine-dominated stand near Kananaskis, Alberta. Seventy percent of the total volume was...
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The analysis of bear-human interactions in the AOSERP study area indicated that the major conflict arises from nuisance bears attracted to areas by garbage
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Ross Eccles
Richard Salter
Jeffrey Green
Although the capability currently exists to reclaim disturbed areas as wildlife habitat, no guidelines have been developed for evaluating success of wildlife habitat reclamation efforts
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of varying amounts of paper birch ( Betula papyrifera Marsh.) on growth of 7- to 11-year-old Douglas-fir ( Pseudostuga menziesii var. glauca (Mrib...