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Logging Paused in A La Peche Caribou Range, Conservation Groups Call for Long-term Protection
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West Fraser Hinton paused its controversial clearcut logging plan in critical habitat of the threatened A La Peche caribou in west-central Alberta, following the province’s creation of a temporary “No...
Managing Wolves (Canis Lupus) to Recover Threatened Woodland Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus Caribou) in Alberta
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Across Canada, woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations are declining because of human-induced changes to food webs that are resulting in apparent competition-induced...
Native Prairie Protocol for Salt-Affected Wellsites Scientific Rationale Document
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There are a large number of oil and gas sites with salts in soil that exceed one or more generic guideline values. The nature of generic guidelines is that, by definition, they do not uniquely...
Nested Population Structure of Threatened Boreal Caribou Revealed by Network Analysis
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Delineating relevant local populations of widely distributed species is a common challenge in conservation ecology. Caribou and reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus) are in general decline throughout their...
Oil Sands Wetland Ecosystem Monitoring Program Indicators in Alberta, Canada: Transitioning from Pilot to Long-Term Monitoring
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Abstract Boreal wetlands within the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, are subject to natural and anthropogenic pressures, resulting in the need for monitoring these sensitive ecosystems to ensure...
PhytoPet© – A Database of Plants that Play a Role in the Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
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The cold climate and short growing season characteristic of the major oil and gas producing regions of western Canada make it particularly important to conduct phytoremediation research on plants...
Potential Productivity of Black Bear Habitat of the AOSERP Study Area
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Crude average bear density for the AOSERP study area, including water areas, was 0.18 per km2 assuming total avoidance of muskeg areas and 0.25 per km2 assuming use of muskeg
Reclamation of an Industrial Sewage Lagoon
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Chemical characteristics of sludge, and precautions required to protect workers, were considered major obstacles to success. However, the physical soil characteristics created by the sludge were worse
Risk Based Salinity Guidelines for Peatlands Phase 1: Literature Review and Gap Analysis
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The overall objective of this research is to obtain sufficient scientific data relevant to salinity in peatlands in northern climates to allow for the derivation of risk-based assessment and...
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Background Document
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The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Scientific Rationale Document
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The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
Soil Physical Properties in Reclamation
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To provide coordinated direction for reclamation research in Alberta, the need to review the current understanding and the role of soil physical properties in soil disturbance related activities was...
Soil Quality Criteria Relative to Disturbance and Reclamation (Revised)
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Land disturbances due to resource extraction and transport are intended to be only temporary disruptions to the normal use of land for food and fiber production or for recreation. Although no two...
The Alberta Boreal Deer Project
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Alberta’s woodland caribou populations are declining, and wolf predation is considered a primary cause (Wittmer et al. 2005). Predation increases where seismic line density is high (ASRD 2010), so...
The Alberta Boreal Deer Project: 2013 Report to PTAC
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Woodland caribou are declining in Alberta’s northeast, and increased predation following elevated wolf densities is implicated. Wolf numbers are increasing in part due to white-tailed deer, which...
The Evaluation of Wastewaters from an Oil Sand Extraction Plant
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Organic constituents of wastewaters from the existing Athabasca oil sands extraction plant were characterized and quantified. Twenty-one chemical parameters were determined on a total of ten samples
The Fish and Fisheries of the Athabasca River Basin: Status and Environmental Requirements
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Reviews what is currently known of fish ecology and production of the Athabasca Basin, and includes discussions of fish production, sport and commercial use of fish populations
The Metabolism of Selected Organic Compounds by Microorganisms in the Athabasca River
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Incubation of samples taken along a transect of the river just downstream from the oil sands plants showed higher rates of microbial degradation on the west bank where effluents and drainage would be
Trophic Consequences of Terrestrial Eutrophication for a Threatened Ungulate
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Conservation actions directed at the proximate cause of caribou decline have been more successful in the near term than those directed further along the trophic chain.