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Silviculture Treatments Hasten Seedling Growth on Seismic Disturbances in Boreal Treed Fens
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Seismic lines in western Canada's boreal region are linear disturbances that affect the habitat of threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou). To hasten the return of forest cover and...
Socio-economic Impact Assessment: A Strategy for Planning
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Five alternative socio-economic impact assessment programs were evaluated from the viewpoint of their value for planning.
Soil Resources of Syncrude Lease 22
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Soil patterns in the area are generally quite simple, with large homogeneous soil units. The major criteria for differentiating soils are parent material and drainage conditions.
Soil Survey of a Portion of the Syncrude Lease 17 Area, Alberta
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Soils were inspected and described at 413 sites. Soils of the Luvisolic, Brunisolic, Gleysolic, Cryosolic and Organic Orders were recognized and characterized. depth of peat is
South Bison Hill Soil Capping Research Synthesis
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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.
Species and Areas Under Protection: Challenges and Opportunities for the Canadian Northern Corridor
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This paper is part of a special series in The School of Public Policy Publications, investigating a concept that would connect the nation’s southern infrastructure to a new series of corridors across...
Specifying Caribou Migratory Behaviours to Identify and Preserve Intraspecies Diversity
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Abstract: Preserving intraspecies diversity, a fundamental conservation goal, strengthens species adaptability. Across most of their range, caribou are declining, with some recent population...
State-dependent Foraging by Caribou With Different Nutritional Requirements
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A 14-page academic paper that examines the connection between the physiological state of caribou and how they feed. The paper says, "Foraging time by caribou was partially state-dependent...
Syncrude Lease No. 17: An Archaeological Survey
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All reported archaeological finds in the Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem of Alberta and pertinent ethnohistorical and ethnographic literature concerning Native Groups of the general region are reviewed
Test of a Bird Deterrent Device at a Tailings Pond, Athabasca Oil Sands, 1974
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Shorebirds readily landed on the shore of this pond and were observed to pick up bitumen on their feet and legs. Hazard considered small although some shorebirds are known to have died at this pond
The Application of Remote Sensing to Environmental Monitoring of the AOSERP Study Area. Volume 1
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Concluded that false color infrared aerial photography acquired during the period of maximum foliage development is most valuable for vegetation mapping and the detection of environmental disturbance
The Application of Remote Sensing to Environmental Monitoring of the AOSERP Study Area. Volume 2
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Figures and Tables associated with Volume 1
The Assimilative Capacity of the Athabasca River for Organic Compounds
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Provide a problem analysis of the goal to determine the assimilative capacity of the Athabasca River with special regard to organics
The Beaver Creek site: A Prehistoric Stone Quarry on Syncrude Lease #22
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Archaeological reconnaissance on Syncrude Lease #17 noted that over 67% of the total stone assemblage recovered from 28 localities consists of quartzite derived from the Beaver Creek Quarry
The Ecology of Macrobenthic Invertebrate Communities in Hartley Creek, Northeastern Alberta
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Hartley Creek, a tributary of the Muskeg River, has rich and diverse benthic fauna and is dominated numerically by Chironomidae but by Trichoptera in terms of biomass.
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