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Video - Do Peatland-dominated Landscapes Buffer Boreal Forests From Drought? Implications for Climate Change Refugia
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Climate refugia are areas where the impacts of climate change may be slower to materialize, providing either permanent or temporary areas of existing habitat that are more likely to persist than...
Video - Field Collection of Balsam Poplar Cuttings
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Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) is a woody species that can easily be propagated and deployed in the field for revegetation purposes if appropriate collection techniques are utilized. This...
Video - How to Restore Water Flow to Reclaimed Well Pad
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (formerly NAIT Boreal Research Institute) is developing cost effective methods to restore the ecological functions of the decommissioned wellsites with the surrounding...
Video - How to Use a RipPlow in Forest Reclamation
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This video shows how to properly use the RipPlow to adjust severely disturbed soil. The NAIT Boreal Research Institute in Peace River is using the RipPlow® to test the restoration of soil quality on...
Video - Hummock Transfer Technique: Reclamation of Temporary Access Features in Peatland
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Exploration of resources (i.e. oil and gas, forestry) creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration (OSE) wells in boreal peatlands...
Video - Native Boreal Seed Enhancement: Seed Pelleting
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Improving seed emergence and survival is one of the largest potential benefits for native boreal seed enhancement. Seed pelleting can increase seed size by multiple orders of magnitude, resulting in...
Video - Peatland Restoration: Site Adjustment Trials NAIT CBR
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The NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (formerly NAIT Boreal Research Institute) is in the Peace River oilsands region of northwestern Alberta. One of the key research initiatives at the Centre is...
Video - Preliminary Study: Forest Soil Development Following Industrial Disturbances, NW Alberta
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Amanada Schoonmaker, NAIT Boreal Research Institute, introduces a preliminary case study on ripping trials on logged landing sites and wellsite reclamation sites in NW Alberta. Soil compaction is an issue for reclamation success for both types of industrial sites.
Video - Site Preparation and Vegetation Management in Reclamation - Part 1
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This talk is the first part of a presentation by Amanda Schoonmaker on Site Preparation and Vegetation Management in Reclamation: Leanings and Ongoing Challenges. This section coves quantitative...
Video - Site Preparation and Vegetation Management in Reclamation - Part 2
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This talk is the second part of a presentation by Amanda Schoonmaker on Site Preparation and Vegetation Management in Reclamation: Leanings and Ongoing Challenges. This section covers deployment of...
Video - The Importance of Tilling Compacted Forest Soil
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The majority of the roots of forests are found near the surface (80% or more are generally found within the top 20 cm of the soil). The trafficking of forest soils by most industrial equipment...
Video - Using a RipPlow for Soil Decompaction in Forestry Reclamation
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In this video, Dr. David McNabb, describes how the NAIT Boreal Research Institute in Peace River is using the RipPlow® to test the restoration of soil quality on decommissioned wellsites and the...
Video - Wood Chip Overburden Reclamation in a Peatland
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Thick wood chips on a temporary access road through a peatland provided a unique operational opportunity to test an adaption of the peat inversion process. The thick layer of wood chips on top of...
Webinar - Applied Research on Mitigating and Restoring In-Situ Footprint on Boreal Peatlands
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This presentation provides an introduction to the Peatland Restoration program at the NAIT Boreal Research Institute and the program's current research.
Webinar - Boreal Fen Vegetation Initiation on Residual Mineral Substrates
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Boreal Fen Vegetation Initiation on Residual Mineral Substrates Presented by Felix Nwaishi, Mount Royal University and Bin Xu, NAIT Centre for Boreal Research Energy exploration in Alberta’s oil sands...
Webinar - Conservation Begins at Home: Understanding Personal, Commercial and Conservation Values of Landowner Stewardship on the Family Farm
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Growing up as a farm kid in central Alberta exposed me to many interests related to raising cattle and life on the family farm. Exploring and enjoying the willow thickets, aspen stands and wetlands...
Webinar - Ducks Unlimited Canada's Satellite-Based Wetland Inventories: Advancements and Applications
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Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Satellite-Based Wetland Inventories: Advancements and Applications Presented by Becky Edwards, Ducks Unlimited Canada Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is leading the effort to...
Webinar - How Mounds are Made Matters: Implications for Seismic Line Restoration in Peatlands
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Presented by Kimberly Kleinke from the University of Waterloo The boreal forest of western Canada is fragmented by seismic lines created for oil and gas exploration. These linear disturbances have...
Webinar - NAIT Boreal Research Institute Applied Research and Knowledge Exchange
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This presentation introduces the NAIT Boreal Research Institute and provides examples of peatland applied research activities, and the use of knowledge exchange products to disseminate findings.