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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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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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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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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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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Ressources naturelles Canada
This handbook assists applicants with their submissions to the Growing Canada’s Forests program, Early Starts projects Expression of Interest (EOI) process. It provides guidance on the type of...
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Ressources naturelles Canada
This handbook assists respondents with their submissions to the Growing Canada’s Forests program, Future Collaborators Request for Information (RFI) process. It provides guidance on the type of...
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Many options have been proposed to adapt forest management to the effects of climate change. One of these options, assisted migration of tree species, is now being explored by forest managers. Forests...
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Many options have been proposed to adapt forest management to the effects of climate change. One of these options, assisted migration of tree species, is now being explored by forest managers. Forests...
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Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
This Research Agenda identifies research gaps and sets priorities for NRCan-CFS research over the next 5-10 years that will help Canada manage cumulative effects to support forest ecosystem resilience...
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Meg Ogden
Sara Justine Wilson
Stephanie Cairns
This summary reviews six of Canada’s major infrastructure funding programs through the lens of a manager seeking to fund a municipal natural asset project.
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Wayne Pettapiece
Donald Acton
The concept of soil quality has evolved from an expression of productivity to an assessment of environmental sustainability. It now includes elements of health and time as well as biological...
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd
InnoTech ALberta Inc.
The objective of Stage 2 of the project was to investigate how adverse effects on the growth of alfalfa might be affected by the depth of a contaminant (sodium chloride) in the soil profile. Stage 2...
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Joshua Killeen
Casi Bouchie
Bob Christian
Ted Gooding
Urgent action is required to reverse caribou population declines that are occurring throughout Alberta and to meet federal targets for reducing habitat disturbance under the Species at Risk Act...