Land Management Resources

In August 2011 researchers from the University of Waterloo, the University of Alberta and Detour Gold Corp. began a research program at the Detour Lake Gold Mine (DLM). This research program involves...

TreeSource est la base de données nationale sur la qualité du bois et des arbres au Canada. Développée par le Centre canadien sur la fibre de bois, elle a pour objectif de rassembler le maximum d...

TreeSource is the National database on wood and trees quality in Canada. Developped by the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, it aims to gather the largest possible amount of information on trees quality...

Proceedings of the Second Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association held in Edmonton August 17-20, 1977 at the University of Alberta.

The question of what species to plant on devastated lands is of critical importance to the success or failure of a reclamation program. This paper outlines some methods that may enable the reclamation...

This presentation showed progress in revegetation research carried out under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Sudbury Region, and the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. Main items...

Reclamation and field scale rehabilitation at Kitsault is in the initial stages only, but useful insights have been obtained. With the mine closure, the absence of operating personnel has limited the...

Heat is the major stress factor on plant growth covering an underground electric transmission system. These effects were examined during two growing seasons on an Ontario Hydro air-insulated...

Establishment and growth of vegetation on the materials found at reclamation sites generally requires the addition of some soil amendment or fertilizer to improve the status of the material as a...

Tailings sand is a fine-textured, high pH (8.0-8.5), low nutrient and poor water holding material. Overburden spoil, generally, is saline, above neutral in pH, high in clay content, low in organic...