Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation reviews the guides and handbooks that have been developed for Alberta's Watershed Planning Advisory Councils to aid them in their watershed reporting and watershed planning.
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This talks presents an analysis of future water management challenges for Alberta at the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
Meghan Payne provides an update on the watershed issues for Lesser Slave Lake and River in north-central Alberta.
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This presentation discusses water security, globally and locally, and how the oil and gas industry is the most adaptive to managing this issue.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation is a summary of the North Saskatchewan River Basin and what is proposed in implementing the watershed management plan.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation outlines the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance's process for watershed planning.
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The resource link will access Part 1 of this presentation. Part 2 can be accessed here. John Pomeroy, professor at the University of Saskatchewan, talks about water supply resilience and flood risk...
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation explains the economic case for wetland conservation in the White Zone of Alberta.
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Geb Raygorodetsky
Cheryl Chetkiewicz
Ontario’s Far North is one of the world’s largest and most intact expanses of boreal forest and wetlands. The region has almost no industrial development today, but that could change with plans for...
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Authors
Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Robert Sandford
Stephanie Merrill
Chris DeBeer
Canada and the world are faced with unprecedented water-related challenges which impact our ability to meet many of the UN sustainable development goals. Climate warming and human actions are altering...
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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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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
The Wetland Atlas describes the distribution of wetlands in Alberta and summarizes human footprint around open water wetlands. Also included are research spotlights on wetland biodiversity including...
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Authors
Bev Gingras
Jules Lebeouf
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
These proceedings describe the findings of the Wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs) Workshop held on January 20th & 21st 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada.
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Authors
Roland Bobbink
Dennis Whigham
Boudewijn Beltman
Jos Verhoeven
Wetland ecosystems are a natural resource of global significance. Historically, their high level of plant and animal (especially bird) diversity is perhaps the major reason why wetland protection has...
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Authors
Jahan Kariyeva
Mike Watmough
Lyle Boychuk
Matthew Wilson
Nadia Rochdi
Bob Sleep
Robert Albricht
Johanna Weston
The key outcome of the workshop was the creation of a vision statement to guide leadership and action for an optimal provincial scale wetland inventory.
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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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This report summarizes the results of a three-year research project to evaluate the effects of forest resource roads and construction techniques on wetland hydrology in Manitoba's boreal forest.
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Presented at the Alberta Lake Management Society Conference 2022, this presentation discusses wetlands irreplaceable ecosystem services, such as nutrient filtration, and the effects of wetland removal...
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Authors
Christopher Evans
Vincent Gauci
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and restoration of wetlands play a key role. This report outlines the contribution of wetlands to global methane output; differences between...