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BERA News Fall 2022
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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
BERA News Spring 2022
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Mounding is a common restoration technique designed to improve microsite conditions for planted seedlings in wetlands. There are a variety of strategies for constructing mounds, though, and how mounds...
Erasing Anthropogenic Disturbance: Natural Revegetation of Linear Features Following Wildfire, and the Implications for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) Habitat Management
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The federal recovery strategy for woodland caribou identifies wildfires within the last 40 years and anthropogenic disturbance visible at a scale of 1:50,000, including a 500-m buffer, as disturbed...
The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA)
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The boreal region of Alberta contains extensive disturbances from natural resource extraction. Roads, well pads, seismic lines (petroleum-exploration corridors), forest-harvest areas, and other...
The Edge 2022 (BERA Systhesis)
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The central goal of the Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA) program is to understand the effects of industrial disturbance on natural ecosystem dynamics, and to develop strategies for...
The Edge: The BERA Program 2024 Synthesis Report
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The 2024 issue of The Edge summarizes the following key findings: Plan A better understanding of passive recovery trajectories will help guide restoration planning LiDAR is a powerful planning tool...
Using LiDAR, Colour Infrared Imagery, and Ground Truth Data for Mapping and Characterizing Vegetation Succession on Disturbance Types: Implications for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) Habitat Management
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Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) occur throughout Canada’s boreal forest and have been declining both in distribution and population size along the southern extent of their range...
Vegetation Recovery on Low Impact Seismic Lines in Alberta's Oil Sands and Visual Obstruction of Wolves (Canis lupus) and Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)
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Low-Impact Seismic (LIS) exploration techniques are being increasingly used in northeastern Alberta, Canada to explore for in-situ oil sands deposits. These narrow (2-4-m wide), meandering man-made...
Video - Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in 2016: Challenges & Opportunities
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Doug Eyford speaks to the changing climate among First Nations and governments in Canada and discusses Canada`s proposed National Reconciliation Framework.
Video - AIA 2016 Conference Green Paper Presentation
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Drs. Anne Naeth & Vic Adamowicz present "Land and People: An Outlook of Opportunity or Inevitable Decline", the AIA commissioned Green Paper to be authored at arms length by peer recognized experts.
Video - Alberta Water Law, Challenges, Possible Solutions
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This talk summarizes the progression of water law and water rights policy in Western Canada and provides some possible solutions for current and emerging challenges.
Video - Alberta's Water Priorities: Update on wetlands
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This 2012 talk presented the government's take on provincial water priorities, specifically in regards to the provincial wetlands policy.
Video - Cold Matters: The snows of yesteryear and the future water supply of the mountain west
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This talk focuses on glacier and mountain snow pack changes, and what that says about Alberta's water future.
Video - Cold Matters: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Water Supply of the Mountain West
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At the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference, Bob Sanford - Chair, United Nations Water for Life Decade - gave a presentation about the variability of western Canada's climate, and what that may mean for the future.
Video - Ecological Tools for Sustainable Management of Alberta Rangelands
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Barry Adams discusses ecological tools and their core applications to rangeland management.
Video - Extreme Conditions, Native Landscapes Restoration
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Debbie Everts talks about some their reclamation work is southwest Alberta. Dr Steve Tannas finishes by describing a Cows and Fish riparian restoration project.
Video - Is the Alberta Climate Change Leadership Plan a Game Changer?
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This presentation reviews the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, what it means for Alberta's international reputation, Canada's Greenhouse Gas policies, and resource development challenges.
Video - Most Recent Scenarios of Future Climate Change for Canada and Alberta
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Adam Fenech explains the temperature has been going up in Banff, when looking at records from 1888 to 2012.