Land Management Resources

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...

Prillcoted seed contains highly concentrated rhizobia and nutrients which, due to their strategic placement surrounding the seed, have a multiplier effect in the soil. Also the viability of the...

The Canadian Seed Growers' Association is the sole agency in Canada for pedigreeing all seed crops except potatoes and tree seeds. Species used to reclaim land should be recognized agricultural...

The present three-year investigation which is funded by the Ministry of the Environment {Ontario} was initiated in September 1973 and has three aims: the monitoring of seepage water quality (bacteria...

The approach taken in this study was to develop a single system which would simultaneously provide a simple means of uniform seed and fertilizer distribution while at the same time binding the soil to...

The Canadian Land Reclamation Association celebrated its 50th anniversary at the annual conference in Edmonton, March 5-7, 2025. A panel of practitioners from BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC and NS, plus...