Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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James Hammond
Philip Hoffman
Brad Pinno
Jaime Pinzon
Jan Klimaszewski
Dustin Hartley
Species loss caused by anthropogenic disturbance threatens forest ecosystems globally. Until 50 years ago, the major sources of boreal forest disturbance in western Canada were a combination of forest...
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Restoration of post mining disturbed sites within the boreal sub-alpine ecological communities of the Yukon has varied levels of success. Employing ecological succession principles to further the...
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
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Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Remkema
Hand collecting vegetative propagules from surrounding pre-mined land and directly planting these propagules on post-mined land may be the only method to successfully establish key shrub species
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By the fall of 1974 34 test sites had been obtained and on 27 of these at least some planting had taken place. In 1975 more small sites (see included map) were obtained and these also were planted
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This Fact Sheet gives guidance regarding the use of native plant materials for revegetation of industrial developments in Alberta. A native plant is defined as a species occurring within its historic...
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T.J.R. White
S.W.J. Dominy
D.J. Allen
Afforestation, the planting of trees on abandoned or under-utilized agricultural lands, has occurred to varying degrees in Ontario since the turn of the 20th century. Knowledge of plantation...
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Thurber Consultants Ltd.
Land Resources Network Ltd.
Norwest Soil Research Ltd.
Topsoil storage does not appear to have any severe and long term effect on topsoil quality. Chemical changes can be rectified with the judicious use of chemical fertilizers or manure. Physical changes
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Beak Associates Consulting Ltd.
The study was commissioned to establish the scientific rationale for existing wastewater discharge legislation for Alberta East Slopes coal mines.
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Miles Tindall
David Brand
B. Ludwig
David Hackbarth
Assessment of the Coleman facility found a range of contaminants exceeding Alberta’s default soil guidelines including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and other hydrocarbon compound
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D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Summary of a survey to determine the reclamation research needs of organizations/industries in Alberta that are involved with industrial disturbances and to prioritize research needs.
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John Major
Alex Mosseler
John Malcolm
Shane Heartz
Salinity tolerance is an important adaptive trait for land reclamation, particularly after petroleum extraction from the Athabasca oil sands “gigaproject” in western Canada. We compared survival...
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To assess climatic and soil conditions under which salts will move out of the root zone in a soil disturbed by a pipeline and to determine the rate at which salts will move in disturbed soils.
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Renee Lapointe
David Langor
Anna Dabros
Brad Pinno
John Spence
Matthew Pyper
Kelvin Hirsch
Most of Canada’s natural resource development (i.e., forestry, oil and gas, and mining activities) occurs in the boreal forest. These industrial activities lead to extensive land disturbances that...
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Ryan O’Neill
Jeremy Dostie
Trevor Floreani
Jean-Marie Sobze
Jasmeen Kaur
Jeannine Goehing
Reclamation of industrial sites in Alberta’s forest settings requires the re-establishment of self-sustaining boreal forest ecosystems comprising native forest plant species. Considerable work has...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
This publication provides a valuable guide for reclamation practitioners and technicians through the documents that regulate plant deployment for reclamation in northwestern Alberta and to provide...
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This note presents fifth-year stocking, density, and height growth results for three lowland and three upland seed spot experiments that compare untreated/unsheltered black spruce seed spots with...
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Anna Dabros
Matthew Pyper
Guillermo Castilla
The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is seismic lines...