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Native Plant Working Group
These guidelines provide a clear, consistent and integrated information package about using native plant materials throughout Alberta where the revegetation goal is to re-establish a native plant...
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
There are a large number of oil and gas sites with salts in soil that exceed one or more generic guideline values. The nature of generic guidelines is that, by definition, they do not uniquely...
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Marshall McKenzie
Chris Powter
Christina Small
Summary of a stakeholder workshop to explore the potential benefits, design and funding models for a Native Breeder Seed Development Consortium
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Christina Small
Quinn Barber
Marshall McKenzie
Chris Powter
Report of workshops held to gather stakeholder input for the Business Case to redesign the Native Species Research Program
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September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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Drake Hocking
William MacDonald
The Workshop covered all active research and development projects for reclamation of land disturbances in Alberta. Purpose was to provide communication and discussion of current programs and results
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Anne Naeth
Albert Lees
Jeanie Bietz
B.D. Irving
Al Fedkenheuer
Compare vegetative productivity, plant species composition and animal utilization on pipeline right-of-way to that of the adjacent native grassland. Field assessments were conducted over 4 years
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Ineffective surface reclamation legislation for many years left thousands of hectares of Alberta landscape scarred and abandoned after being disturbed by man's activities. In an effort to reclaim some...
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With respect to mine planning, reclamation should be recognized as an integral part of mining and therefore should be considered as one of the constraints in determining mining methods and overall...
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Sandra Landsburg
Al Fedkenheuer
Recommendations for rehabilitation and reclamation of soils contaminated by bromacil include use of activated carbon, manure, wet- dry soil cycles, and plant seedlings to enhance adsorption, and plant
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Seventy-eight reclamation practitioners from government, industry, consulting, academia, and the services sector gathered in Edmonton on March 6, 2024, to highlight and discuss specific issues facing...
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Diesel invert wastes are one of the more difficult types of drilling mud wastes to dispose of due to the presence of hydrocarbons and salts. In 1989 a joint research program funded by the Alberta...
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By the fall of 1974 34 test sites had been obtained and on 27 of these at least some planting had taken place. In 1975 more small sites (see included map) were obtained and these also were planted
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Summary of a survey to determine the reclamation research needs of organizations/industries in Alberta that are involved with industrial disturbances and to prioritize research needs.
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
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Chris Powter
John Hogenbirk
If you are planning or undertaking revegetation using long-lived species such as trees then you should be giving some consideration to the environment they may experience in the future
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Soil microorganisms and their activities are the major vectors in the decomposition of plant litter and the subsequent transformation and flow of such essential plant nutrients as nitrogen and phospho
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This study examined three pervasive issues that impacted native ecosystems. Numerous land use practices including oil and gas activities have led to the modification of native grasslands both the...
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.