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Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance Integrated Watershed Management Plan
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The Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance (MPWA) supports the three goals of Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy: safe secure drinking water, healthy aquatic ecosystems, and reliable, quality water supplies...
Natal Habitat Preference Induction in Large Mammals—Like Mother, Like Child?
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Project Description:We used complementary approaches to assess natal habitat preference induction in a marked population of woodland caribou. All approaches compared the behavior of calves in their...
Natal Habitat Preference Induction in Large Mammals—Like Mother, Like Child?
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...three complementary approaches to assess NHPI in a marked population: (a) population‐based resource selection functions (RSFs), (b) individual‐based RSFs, and (c) behavioral repeatability analyses.
National CLRA Conference Papers
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The Canadian Land Reclamation Association has been holding annual reclamation conferences since 1975.
Native Grass Breeding Program at Alberta Environmental Centre
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A program to develop genotypes of native Alberta species for reclamation of disturbed lands was begun at the Alberta Environmental Centre in 1983. As a part of this larger program a native grass...
Natural Processes: An Effective Model for Mine Reclamation
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Restoration programs based on the use of natural processes can reduce the costs of restoration while providing self-sustaining restored ecosystems that re-integrate with the local recovery...
Northern Biochar for Northern Remediation and Restoration
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Biochar is a soil amendment that results from heating various biological ingredients, such as wood, fish or animal bone under oxygen limited conditions and has proven to promote plant growth, as well...
Oil Sands Clay Fines: Can they be Reclaimed as Productive, Self-Sustaining Wetlands?
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The Clark hot water process currently used for extracting bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands results in large volumes of clay fines containing small amounts of residual bitumen. One possible way of...
Oil Sands Rec1amation – An Overview of Suncor’s Program
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Commercial production of synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands began in 1967 in north-eastern Alberta. Suncor Inc., then known as Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., began the development of...
Oil Sands Research and Information Network: Creating and Sharing Knowledge to Support Environmental Management of the Mineable Oil Sands
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The Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) is a university-based, independent organization that compiles, interprets and analyses available knowledge about managing the environmental...
Oil Sands Tailings: Integrated Planning to Provide Long-Term Stabilization
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Processing oil sand involves material handling on an unprecedented scale, and creates vast quantities of waste or tailings. Large retaining structures are constructed from the sand tailings and used...
OSESG'S Role in Oil Sands Land Reclamation
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The Oil Sands Environmental Study Group {OSESG) was formed early in 1973 by sixteen major petroleum companies who were either oil sands operators or lease holders. The group was designed to operate as...
Overcoming Challenges of Sparse Telemetry Data to Estimate Caribou Movement
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Sparse data sets, such as VHF collar locations, can be used to fit movement models whose parameters could not be estimated directly from the data.
Overcoming Northern Challenges. Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association
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Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38 th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Whitehorse, Yukon, September 9 – 12, 2013
Panel Discussion – Public Participation in Development and Reclamation
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Public participation will increase in all facets of industrial development in Alberta. This Panel was convened to identify some of the ways in which the public can participate in the development and...
Panel Discussion – What is Successful Reclamation?
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Government: The Government's perception of successful reclamation may be different than that of the landowner or the operator or any of the other interest groups or all of them. It is not the...
Passive Treatment of Mine Drainage Waters: The Use of Biochars and Wood Products to Enhance Metal Removal Efficiency
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Passive biological treatments have been proposed as a possible efficient and cost effective treatment method for metal bearing water discharged from mine sites after closure. Several biofilters are...
Performance of an Engineered Cover System for a Uranium Mine Waste Rock Pile in Northern Saskatchewan After Six Years
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The Claude waste rock pile at Cluff Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin contains ~7.2 million tonnes of waste rock, upon which an engineered enhanced store-and-release cover...
Physical-chemical Treatment with Geotube® Filtration Applied to Underground Gold Mine Dewatering in Winter
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Vezza Mine, a former gold mine includes a three-compartment shaft with four underground levels down to a depth of 741 metres, This mine was never put in production since its construction around 1997...