Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd.
Boreal caribou range across nine provinces and territories in Canada, including northeast British Columbia (B.C.). These forest-dwelling caribou are listed as “Threatened” under Schedule 1 of Canada’s...
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Diane Culling
Deborah Cichowski
This scientific review was prepared for the B.C. Oil and Gas Research Innovation Society (Victoria, B.C.). In 2010, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) completed the Scientific Update for the Boreal...
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
This summary sheet provides a synthesis of two science pieces completed by ECCC: the 2011 meta-analysis of boreal caribou population and habitat condition, and the scientific research to inform...
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Isabelle Schmelzer
Keith Lewis
John Jacobs
Sara McCarthy
Resource Date:
April
2020
Highlights Boreal caribou persistence has been affected by landscape disturbance and subsequent apparent competition. Climatic conditions also affect caribou via energy gains and losses and indirectly...
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Government of Northwest Territories
In 2014, boreal caribou in the NWT were listed as a Threatened species under the NWT Species at Risk Act and a NWT Recovery Strategy was prepared to guide boreal caribou recovery actions. One of the...
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Government of Northwest Territories
Overall, the population of boreal caribou in the NWT is considered stable, but there are declines in some areas of the Dehcho region. This year, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources...
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April 22nd, 2020 at 7:00pm to April 22nd, 2020 at 8:30pm
The Boreal Nature Series (BNS) is a speaker series hosted by the NAIT Centre for Boreal research, promoting current research and projects related to the boreal forest region. Each session includes...
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These fact sheets highlight plant, soil, and water indicators and key ecological benefits of each of the five major wetlands types.
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Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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Resource Date:
January
2020
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) initiated the Western Boreal Program in 1997 with an understanding that working with forward thinking forest industry partners was key to advancing wetland conservation in...
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Bev Gingras
Stuart Slattery
Kevin Smith
Marcel Darveau
Resource Date:
August
2016
The Canadian and Alaskan boreal zone is one of the most water rich areas in the world, and contains an estimated combined surface water and peatland area the size of Indonesia (∼1.94 million km2)...
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June 21st, 2024 at 12:00am MST to June 23rd, 2024 at 12:00pm MST
Slave Lake, AB
Botany Alberta will be held Friday June 21st to Sunday June 23rd, 2024 at Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park near Slave Lake, Alberta. Email botanyab@anpc.ab.ca to register. The event will include: An...
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In the 70' s a section of the Bow River about 20 km south of Calgary, was diverted to protect a school bus road. A dyke with a 1.5 metre diameter culvert was constructed across the upstream end of the...
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A resource to improve understanding of wetlands in the Bow River region to promote conservation through protection and restoration. Wetlands are natural assets that have a vital role in climate change...
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Clayton Lamb
Roland Willson
Allyson Menzies
Naomi Owens-Beek
Michael Price
Scott McNay
Sarah Otto
Mateen Hessami
Jesse Popp
Mark Hebblewhite
Adam Ford
Endangered species laws effectively prevent species extinction but fall short in restoring abundance for culturally important species. Legal agreements between Indigenous peoples and countries...
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Authors
Clayton Lamb
Roland Willson
Allyson Menzies
Naomi Owens-Beek
Michael Price
Scott McNay
Sarah Otto
Mateen Hessami
Jesse Popp
Mark Hebblewhite
Adam Ford
A new Science paper co-produced by Indigenous and Western authors highlights how Indigenous rights can pick up where endangered species laws fall short in recovering species to culturally-meaningful...
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Michael Rowell
Jean Crepin
Salt spills are liable to become more prevalent in the oil producing regions of Alberta as the volume of brine relative to crude oil increases with the depletion of the older oil-fields. High...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is an introduction to a 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada...
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May 30th, 2024 at 8:30am MST to May 31st, 2024 at 5:00pm MST
Edmonton, AB
bryophytes@vertex.ca
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Although we will not be able to meet in person this fall and winter for Plant Study Groups, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online Webinar Series. The webinars will run biweekly...