Land Management Resources
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Alberta Environmental Protection, Land and Forest Service
In addition to controlling erosion, native species are used for revegetation mainly to maintain the genetic integrity of a site's native vegetation and to ensure the habitat is appropriate for...
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Elly Knight
Tessa Rhinehart
Devin de Zwaan
Matthew Weldy
Mark Cartwright
Scott Hawley
Jeffery Larkin
Damon Lesmeister
Erin Bayne
Justin Kitzes
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Solène Marion
Gonçalo Curveira Santos
Emily Herdman
Anne Hubbs
Sean Patrick Kearney
Cole Burton
Rapid growth in outdoor recreation may have important and varied effects on terrestrial mammal communities. Few studies have investigated factors influencing variation in observed responses of...
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Sarah Thacker
Sara Venskaitis
Kevin Renkema
Emily Herdman
Earth observation (EO), remote sensing (RS), and other digital technologies are emerging as powerful tools for monitoring the environment and collecting environmental data. These technologies can be...
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Jorge Castro
Domingo Alcaraz-Segura
Jennifer Baltzer
Lot Amorós
Fernando Morales-Rueda
Siham Tabik
Aerial seeding with drones has great potential in forest restoration but faces enormous challenges to be efficient and scalable. Current protocols use blanket seeding throughout the area to be...
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Abdul Samad
Dani Degenhardt
Armand Séguin
Marie-Josée Morency
Patrick Gagné
Christine Martineau
The oil sands mining operations in Alberta have produced billions of m3 of tailings which must be reclaimed and integrated into various mine closure landforms, including terrestrial landforms...
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Laura Manchola-Rojas
Brad Pinno
Derek Mackenzie
Sebastian Dietrich
Buried wood is an important yet understudied component of natural and anthropogenic soils. Nutrient immobilization as a response to wood addition during oil sands' reclamation may be a concern since...
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The redevelopment of understories is an often-overlooked aspect of forest restoration following anthropogenic disturbances. In my research I explored the feasibility of actively restoring forest...
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Microsite heterogeneity is an important variable that drives biodiversity in forests. Current forest reclamation practices often do not incorporate site heterogeneity in their practices which might...
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Service Canadien des Forêts
The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers has spearheaded the development of the Canadian Wildland Fire Prevention and Mitigation Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy outlines a set of goals...