Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Maurice Dusseault
Hal Soderberg
The post-reclamation subsidence of cast-back overburden is of interest to mining companies and regulatory agencies. Although subsidence may be of lesser concern than the prevention of soil degradation...
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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
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A recent investment of $24 million towards caribou conservation will help fund construction and operation of a caribou breeding centre in Jasper National Park. Wild caribou from local herds will be...
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News release Jasper National Park, Alberta | Parks Canada Agency The Government of Canada is committed to protecting biodiversity conservation and undertakes important initiatives to assist species at...
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The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced steps taken in Ontario to protect Boreal Caribou habitat under the federal Species at Risk Act . After forming...
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The governments of Canada and Manitoba have reached a three-year agreement to support conservation and recovery of boreal caribou in Manitoba. Nearly $1 million has been committed by Environment and...
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Ellie Goud
Sabrina Touchette
Ian Strachan
Maria Strack
One metric of peatland restoration success is the re-establishment of a carbon sink, yet considerable uncertainty remains around the timescale of carbon sink trajectories. Conditions post-restoration...
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Scientific Enquiry Committee
Evaluate impact of the GCOS tailings discharges on the Athabasca River, and to provide recommendations on any necessary action to be taken by Alberta Environment and Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited.
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Summary of the meteorological data collected by the meteorological tower network in the Gregoire Lake region of northeast Alberta during the spring and summer of 1979 to monitor impact of Amoco plant
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Resource Date:
January
2018
The Guide to Watershed Management Planning in Alberta provides advice on the steps to develop and implement a watershed management plan.
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With funding and support from Alberta Innovates’ Water Innovation Program, Alberta North American Waterfowl Management Plan Partnership and Prairie Habitat Joint Venture, Ducks Unlimited Canada have...
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This practitioner guide provides a user-friendly overview of the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and what these interactions mean for forest managers working in Canada’s boreal.
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
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Robert Serrouya
Melanie Dickie
Craig DeMars
Meike Wittmann
Stan Boutin
Resource Date:
December
2020
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Breeding bird studies using the mapping method were combined with intensive habitat quantification to determine the relative values to breeding avifauna of 21 habitat types
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The Klinse-Za herd area, located between Mackenzie, Chetwynd and the Peace Arm of Williston reservoir, used to support a herd of almost 200 caribou as recently as 1995 and was said to be so numerous...
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Andrew Latham
Maria Latham
Mark Boyce
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Bart Peeters
Vidar Grøtan
Marlène Gamelon
Vebjørn Veiberg
Aline Lee
John Fryxell
Steve Albon
Bernt-Erik Sæther
Steinar Engen
Steinar Engen
Leif Loe
Brage Hansen
Resource Date:
February
2022
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Roderick Allan
Togwell Jackson
To document the natural heavy metal geochemistry of the sediment and to assess cultural influences if any on concentrations. Absolute concentrations are low compared to data for polluted sediments
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Roderick Allan
Togwell Jackson
Dredged sediments and sediment cores were collected from sites along the Athabasca River system from between Fort McMurray and the confluence of Riviere des Rochers with the Slave River