Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
January
1994
Report of proceedings from a workshop to produce a strategic plan for developing a Watershed Assessment Model and identifying key project events.
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During the Fall of 2006, the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines tendered a construction project to provide a soil cover over the North Impounded Tailings (NIT) area at the abandoned...
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Authors
Geneviève Faille
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Daniel Fortin
Réhaume Courtois
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Claude Dussault
Resource Date:
November
2010
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Ontario Environment, Conservation and Parks
Resource Date:
April
2019
The Range Management Policy provides a transparent and evidence-based approach to planning and decision-making in caribou habitat that maintains or improves the condition of caribou ranges in Ontario...
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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Ontario Regional Working Group of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
This document records the recommendations and the voluntary contributions of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) signatories for a Caribou Action Plan in the Cochrane-Quebec/Kesagami caribou...
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Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries and Land Resources
Resource Date:
April
2018
Newfoundland and Labrador is home to several herds of caribou; the island population, the migratory George River caribou (northern Labrador), and perhaps the most sensitive, the boreal herds of...
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Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Michael Charlebois
Brady Balicki
Resource Date:
February
2014
In boreal forests, wildfire is a dominant ecological process that affects the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens, the principal winter food for Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Authors
Amy Wotherspoon
Nelson Thiffault
Robert Bradley
Scarification is a mechanical site preparation technique designed to create microsites that will favor the growth of planted tree seedlings after clearcutting. However, the positive growth response of...
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Authors
James Hammond
Philip Hoffman
Brad Pinno
Jaime Pinzon
Jan Klimaszewski
Dustin Hartley
Species loss caused by anthropogenic disturbance threatens forest ecosystems globally. Until 50 years ago, the major sources of boreal forest disturbance in western Canada were a combination of forest...
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Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Maria Strack
Michael Cody
Bin Xu
Resource Date:
April
2021
This article outlines the results of monitoring two restored oil sands exploration sites, and discusses the effectiveness of treatments on tree recovery and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Authors
Bin Xu
Line Rochefort
Melanie Bird
Bhupesh Khadka
Maria Strack
The prompt introduction and establishment of peatland donor species through moss layer transfer technique was crucial to the overall re-establishment of peatland vegetation.
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Restoration of post mining disturbed sites within the boreal sub-alpine ecological communities of the Yukon has varied levels of success. Employing ecological succession principles to further the...
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Evgeniya Smirnova
Isabelle Demers
Medard Bouda
Mostafa Benzaazoua
Mamert Mbonimpa
Guylaine Bois
The use of the lime neutralization process is a common technique to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) generated by sulphidic mine wastes. The AMD-contaminated water collected on the mine site is...
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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Authors
T.J.R. White
S.W.J. Dominy
D.J. Allen
Afforestation, the planting of trees on abandoned or under-utilized agricultural lands, has occurred to varying degrees in Ontario since the turn of the 20th century. Knowledge of plantation...
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Authors
Saraswati Saraswati
Yubraj Bhusal
Andrew Trant
Maria Strack
Peatlands in the western boreal plains of Canada are important ecosystems as they store over two percent of global terrestrial carbon. However, in recent decades, many of these peatlands have been...
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Authors
Jeff Bowman
Justina Ray
Audrey Magoun
Devin Johnson
Neil Dawson
Resource Date:
April
2010
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John Major
Alex Mosseler
John Malcolm
Shane Heartz
Salinity tolerance is an important adaptive trait for land reclamation, particularly after petroleum extraction from the Athabasca oil sands “gigaproject” in western Canada. We compared survival...
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Renee Lapointe
David Langor
Anna Dabros
Brad Pinno
John Spence
Matthew Pyper
Kelvin Hirsch
Most of Canada’s natural resource development (i.e., forestry, oil and gas, and mining activities) occurs in the boreal forest. These industrial activities lead to extensive land disturbances that...