Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Don Scott
G. Zinter
D.R. Pauls
Maurice Dusseault
Differential subsidence of reclaimed surfaces has been demonstrated to create water—holding depressions that disrupt farming operations and to cause pavement distress in roads crossing reclaimed areas
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Technology Transfer Notes are a new series of publications focusing on forestry research applications. Technology Transfer Notes offer new techniques, methods, tools and procedures, and deliver...
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Roger Whitehead
Glenda Russo
Brad Hawkes
Brad Armitage
Over the past 15 years, selective cutting prescriptions have been applied by forest operations in southeastern British Columbia as part of a strategy to reduce landscape-level susceptibility to damage...
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William Phillips
Denis dePape
Leonard Ewanyk
50,170 Albertans engaged in nonconsumptive fish and wildlife use in the AOSERP study area for a total of 83,393 recreation days during 1975-76.
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R.L. & L. Environmental Services Ltd.
A.A. Aquatic Research Ltd.
Characterize and re-define aquatic habitats. Aquatic habitat, water quality, flora, and fauna of the aquatic systems in the development area are typical of those found in the oil sands region
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Philip Tsui
Derek Tripp
William Grant
describe existing environmental conditions in, and to document natural biological colonization of, the West Interceptor Ditch and determine the degree of biological colonization of lower Beaver Creek
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Overall objectives of this project are to identify and analyse various dimensions and aspects of the social and personal adjustment to current and past conditions of life in the study area.
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Data file contains coded responses for 430 interviews conducted by the Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta during May and June of 1979
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John Gartrell
H. Krahn
F.D. Sunahara
From 1961 to 1979, there was an abrupt transition from the economy reliant on traditional activities such as hunting, trapping, fishing, and transportation to an industrial economy based on oil sands
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In 1980, the tailings pond was a highly stratified waterbody with a low density, well mixed surface zone (0-6 m) overlying a high density deep water zone (>10 m) where mixing is slow
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Daphne Cheel
Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Don Thacker
Terry Macyk
Report synthesizes and summarizes 36 RRTAC reports to provide the user with a unified source of information on land and groundwater reclamation research in the plains of Alberta
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Andrew Lutz
Marilyn Hendzel
Analyses are given for up to 12 metals and 4 pesticides with PCBs, of aquatic environment from 15 sites along or near the Athabasca River from Fort McMurray north to the confluence of the Peace River
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Heather MacDonald
Dan McKenney
Kristine Confalone
Kelly Mitchell
This paper summarizes the results of a survey of 99 municipal/regional governments, academia, and private organizations about weather stations. The survey, developed by the Great Lakes Forestry Centre...
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Data on regional water quality, hydrology, physical and chemical limnology, and fisheries resources of the lakes and streams within the AOSERP area. Extensive bibliography of the pertinent literature
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C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
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D.G.W. Edwards
B.S.P. Wang
Pierre Boross
This publication describes detailed training guidelines for tree seed testing that are used at national and international levels. A historical overview of tree seed testing in Canada is also given...
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Jeffrey Green
Timothy Egmond
Caroline Wylie
Ian Jones
Len Knapik
Lawrence Paterson
Important considerations in reclamation planning and methods for reclamation are described for: agriculture, forestry, wildlife habitat, fish habitat, recreation, and residential/industrial use
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Dennis Cook
Jerald Jacobson
Study designed to develop an analysis model which would produce statistically reliable estimates of visibility bias and total population
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Guide to answer: • Why has there been a shift in how we manage woody materials? • How can woody materials be managed effectively on sites? • What do effective woody material applications look like?
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Government of New Brunswick, Department of Environment and Local Government
In New Brunswick we are fortunate to have a plentiful supply of good quality water available to use and enjoy, but this is not something that should be taken for granted. This strategy has been...