Land Management Search Results
Resource
Authors
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This report profiles Canada’s success in conserving forest biodiversity. It also assesses our progress in meeting commitments under the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy.
Resource
Authors
Laura Finnegan
Suzanne Stevenson
Chris Johnson
Tracy McKay
With of goal of understanding how silviculture and harvesting practices might mirror those of natural disturbances, here we summarize research describing differences in responses of caribou and...
Resource
An article about research into the ecological impact of gut parasites in caribou. The researchers "...developed a series of mathematical simulations to test how caribou survival, reproduction and...
Resource
Authors
Deborah Cichowski
Scott McNay
Justina Ray
Most populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in southern British Columbia (BC) have undergone dramatic declines, especially in the last 10-20 years, with seven herds already extirpated and another...
Resource
Trees are an integral and valuable pa rt of t he urban environment. They provide a visual softening to the harsh lines of urban development and make cities livable by improving the quality of life...
Resource
When considering the potential impacts of climate change in forests, researchers need examples. Whether the questions are ecological, biological, physical, economic, or social, our predictions...
Resource
There may be different interpretations of cooperative reclamation research, so it is appropriate to explain how the term will be used in subsequent discussions. The basic concept is to broaden the...
Resource
Authors
Tim Williamson
Steve Colombo
Peter Duinker
Paul Gray
Ryan Hennessey
Daniel Houle
Mark Johnston
Aynslie Ogden
Dave Spittlehouse
Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
Resource
Authors
Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
Resource
Authors
Alex Schumacher
Reinhard Hermesh
Antoine Bedwany
The study involved an examination of the vegetation and spoils on five mine locations in the central Parkland of Alberta. These five locations represented different spoil types, and methods of mining...
Resource
Authors
Alberta Environment and Parks
This code of practice regulates wetland restoration and wetland construction activities as defined in the Code by replacing Water Act approval requirements. Wetland restoration is applied to wetlands...
Resource
Authors
N. Moudrak
B. Feltmate
H. Venema
H. Osman
Resource Date:
September
2018
Combating Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option.
Resource
Authors
Harald Thimm
G.J. Clark
G. Baker
The construction of a wastewater evaporation lagoon at the Quirk Creek Gas Plant a number of years ago resulted in the creation of a six acre area of overburden consisting of heavy clay, gravel and...
Resource
Authors
Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
Resource
Authors
Noor Johnson
Carolina Behe
Finn Danielsen
Eva-Maria Krummel
Scot Nickels
Peter Pulsifer
This review of community-based monitoring (CBM) in a changing Arctic is based on a multi-year initiative launched in 2012 as a task under the “Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks” (SAON), a network...
Resource
Authors
Bev Gingras
Cynthia Paszkowski
Garry Scrimgeour
Sharon Kendall
Objective was to compare the effectiveness of four commonly used sampling techniques (pitfall traps, funnel traps, visual searches and call surveys) to detect stream amphibian communities.
Resource
Authors
Terry Macyk
Bonnie Drozdowski
This report identifies and summarizes reclamation practices that have been used in the mineable Oil Sands region and coal mining industry over the last 40+ years.
Resource
SARA SECTION 11 (S11) CONSERVATION AGREEMENT - labrador The overarching goal of this Agreement is to articulate how the Parties will collaboratively support the recovery of boreal caribou in Labrador.
Resource
Manitoba’s Boreal Woodland Caribou Recovery Strategy is a living document that outlines management initiatives and direction for conservation of boreal caribou across Manitoba for the next 10 years...
Resource
Although ecological transitions are expected to be widespread, under even the least-change climate scenario, ecological change is not synonymous with the loss of biodiversity.