Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Provide a preliminary understanding of the state of the art of in situ bitumen recovery technology, the most probable application and rate of application of that technology to the Athabasca deposit
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Prior to implementing a large scale reclamation program, the goals must be defined to develop an effective plan of action. This focuses the efforts expended on the program and gives direction to the...
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As an overview to pipelining in Alberta, prior to 1976 there was no requirement for operators to conserve topsoil or ensure growth capability. However, with the passing of Alberta Regulation 207/76...
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Syncrude Canada Ltd. is an oil sands surface mining and processing venture located at the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit in northeastem Alberta. The, Alberta Government maintains that mined land be...
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Carolyn Smyth
Juha Metsaranta
Heather MacDonald
Mathieu Fortin
Sophie Le Noble
A video outlining major updates to the Forest Carbon Science Blueprint for Canada. The original publication can be found here. The PDF of the presentation can be found here.
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Karine Pigeon
Megan Hornseth
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
We used GPS data from caribou and wolves, field data on human and wildlife use of seismic lines and pipelines, vegetation heights extracted from LiDAR, non-invasive fecal DNA collections, and a suite...
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Fur value produced per square kilometre averaged $7.58 ($19.64/mi2) but ranged more than 500-fold, with much variation seeming attributable to trapper effort. 5% of traplines reported nil catches
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A video that shows novel research in analyzing and predicting fire refugia in western Canada. A PDF of the PowerPoint can be found here.
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Pruning is a very useful silvicultural treatment both for improving the final quality of a stand and for controlling certain pests. However, pruning causes wounds that the tree must close as quickly...
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Pruning is a very useful silvicultural treatment both for improving the final quality of a stand and for controlling certain pests. However, pruning causes wounds that the tree must close as quickly...
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Gaston Laflamme
Guy Bussières
Annosus root and butt rot appeared in Quebec relatively recently and its progression still seems to be fairly limited. However, the capacity of this disease to spread over long distances and the value...
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Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Xiao Jing Guo
Manuel Lamothe
Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation...
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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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Terry Antoniuk
John Nishi
Karen Manuel
Mika Sutherland
Cornel Yarmoloy
In order to evaluate management options that may recover and sustain boreal caribou in the Athabasca Landscape area, the ALT developed scenarios and used simulation modeling to compare and evaluate...
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Report focuses on evolution and current state of pertinent federal legislative Acts in the environmental, natural resource, and energy policy sectors that may impact oil sands environmental management
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purpose of this project is to determine the population size of moose in the survey area with regard given to sex and age ratios and distribution according to habitat and seasonal climatic features
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Leila Taheriazad
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
This report presents a comprehensive review of industrial applications of an emerging environmental monitoring technology called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and a WSN installed at Coal Valley Mine
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Jeffrey Green
Gail Harrison
The costs and methods of wildlife habitat reclamation are discussed for three examples. The first example, the Cascade Landfill site in Banff National Park, illustrates the approach and costs of...
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Marc-André Parisien
Denyse Dawe
Carol Miller
Christopher Stockdale
Bradley Armitage
Wildland fire scientists and land managers working in fire-prone areas require spatial estimates of wildfire potential. To fulfill this need, a simulation-modelling approach was developed whereby...
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Marcus Becker
Dave Huggard
Melanie Dickie
Camille Warbington
Jim Schieck
Emily Herdman
Robert Serrouya
Stan Boutin
Estimating animal abundance and density are fundamental goals of many wildlife monitoring programs. Camera trapping has become an increasingly popular tool to achieve these monitoring goals due to...