Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
David McNabb
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
The trafficking of soils by industrial equipment generally causes an increase in soil density and loss of soil structure. The effects of moderate to severe compaction and loss of soil structure on the...
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Authors
David McNabb
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Frozen soils are the most difficult soils to till and many cannot be plowed with RipPlows or require some specific practices to increase the probability of success. The depth of frozen soil that...
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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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Resource Date:
February
2021
In forest reclamation, the use of nursery stock seedlings is often desirable as this plant material provides greater assurance of woody plant cover development, whereas leave-for-natural-recovery...
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Authors
Emanuel Machado
Dave Newman
Lorraine Coughlin
André Boel
Lizette Fischer
Roy Brooke
Improving the management of Canada’s infrastructure and other assets is a vital, yet complex, challenge.
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Authors
Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vernon Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a surface mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since 1972. The main...
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This guidebook explains vegetation management tools and techniques. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service (NRCan-CFS) developed this guidebook to help with the successional restoration of...
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Time spent foraging on 18 different plant species was estimated for 4 wapiti during winter (February 14-27), spring (June 12-18) and late summer (August 2O-September 2). Creeping red fescue and hard...
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This article introduces scientific contributions to the special issue paper collection focusing on water and environmental management in oil sands regions. New hydrological insights for the region...
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Authors
Axel Anderson
Richard Mccleary
Sheena Spencer
Michael Wagner
Resource Date:
January
2018
This poster outlines the development of a watershed assessment procedure for the eastern slopes of Alberta. The process was developed with the Oldman Watershed Council, using the Oldman River Basin as a study site.
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In some areas the accelerated weathering of material disturbed by coal mining operations releases toxic concentrations of elements present. Also, water seeping through the mine waste may become quite...
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Authors
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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Authors
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
Reclaiming in-situ well pads built in peatland presents many challenges. Our project offers an innovative approach that removes the clay pad and geotextile, fluffs and re-profiles the buried peat...
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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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Authors
Michael Merchant
Alain Richard
Kevin Smith
Rebecca Warren
Rebecca Edwards
Adam Spitzig
Dan Fehringer
This research poster describes the Enhanced Wetland Inventory (EWC) and Boreal Wetland Classification System developed by Ducks Unlimited Canada. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
This presentation provides an overview of Manitoba Hydro's planning through to operations approach to wetland mitigation on their rights of ways.
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Authors
Surya Acharya
R.N. Coleman
M.E. Neuwirth
Michelle Dalpe
Soil samples from the rhizosphere of Poa alpina and Trisetum spicatum collected on Lookout Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta contained at least 10 times more bacteria than the soil 3 cm away. The...
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Authors
Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Marc-André Parisien
Resource Date:
April
2018
The boreal forests of Alberta have dense networks of seismic exploration lines which have been shown to contribute significantly to the decline in woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)...
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Authors
AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Report provides a summary of wildlife habitat information for oil sands reclamation
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Authors
Chris Powter
Brian Eaton
Gord McKenna
Jason Fisher
On March 3, 2016 Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF) held a Workshop on Reclamation Planning for Wildlife Habitat on Oil Sands Mines. The goal of the Workshop was to review the current...