Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Physical properties of soils and mined materials in relation to reclamation; Chemical properties of soils and methods of improving mined material for plant growth; Sulphur deposition and acidification
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Origins, extent and reclamation of saline soils in Alberta are described. Natural and man-induced salinity are addressed but the latter is emphasized. Major activities/structures responsible for...
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Aspen sucker production from root fragments was 3X higher at salvage/placement depth of 40 cm compared to 15 cm. Successful suckering occurred in root fragments with little damage in upper 20 cm soil
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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C. Middleton
Francis Salifu
Wayne Tedder
David Chanasyk
John Hastie
Results indicated a negative relationship among pine performance with increasing soluble calcium and available sulphate-S
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This document consists of two tables providing chemical and physical properties of soil, peat, overburden, spent sand and lean tar sand from Syncrude and Suncor.
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This report describes some novel experiments adding CO2 to liquid tailings from the G. C. O. S. plant, which may lead to an economically feasible tailings treatment process
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Part 2 of the report deals with the theoretical aspects of the reactions between carbon dioxide and tailings.
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Emily Ury
Puvaanah Arrumugam
Ellen Herbert
Pascal Badiou
Bryan Page
Nandita Basu
Resource Date:
April
2023
Wetland restoration is a popular nutrient management strategy for improving water quality in agricultural catchments. However, a wetland’s ability to retain phosphorus is highly variable and wetlands...
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A thickness of 75 cm will provide adequate water supply to vegetation during droughts while also allowing for the release of water to the downstream reclaimed landscape.
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Suyuan Yang
Owen Sutton
Eric Kessel
Jonathan Price
At the Nikanotee Fen Watershed, a pioneering reclamation project in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, elevated sodium (Na+) in the porewater of mine-waste materials has been shown to migrate to the fen...
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Meagan Wood
Merrin Macrae
Maria Strack
Jonathan Price
Terry Osko
Richard Petrone
Wetlands are found extensively throughout the Western Boreal Plain, a region under pressure because of disturbance by the oil and gas industries. To understand how wetland systems may respond to...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Vegetation management is critical to establishing desirable plant species and to achieving reclamation objectives. This resource is one of four technical notes on vegetation management for reclamation...
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Dave McCoy
Henry Regier
Dave Graveland
Physical and chemical analyses of spent sand indicate that this material is very infertile. The spent sand samples analysed had an average pH of 7.2 and low Na content
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InnoTech Alberta
University of Alberta
The InnoTech/UofA above ground mesocosm facility enables configurable, innovative approaches for assessing potential environmental and ecological impacts of industrial activities
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This study examined three pervasive issues that impacted native ecosystems. Numerous land use practices including oil and gas activities have led to the modification of native grasslands both the...
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Colonization of limestone gravel, limestone gravel + organic matter, and limestone gravel from a river bed was followed over time to compare two possible stream reclamation substrates with a control
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Stephen Moran
John Cherry
In reconstructing the landscape during reclamation the sequence and methods of placement of overburden material determine the post-mining subsurface-water chemistry. The type of material at various...
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Matthew Pyper
Chris Powter
Tim Vinge
For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to how an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond