Land Management Search Results
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Boreal peatland restoration through partial removal of an oil and gas well pad Murdoch McKinnon, University of Waterloo Peatlands cover over 30% of the landscape on Canada’s Western Boreal Plains...
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The Emend for Schools: 360° Video EMEND Tour Teachers Resource is a full lesson plan and 360 immersive and interactive video teaching tool, including a teacher lesson plan and student workbook aligned...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
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November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Jessie Lavallee-Whiffen
Kristyn Mayner
Chantelle Abma
Video series from Ducks Unlimited Canada, discussing the fascinating and ecologically important dynamics of carbon in Canada’s peatlands, and our role in maintaining these crucial ecotypes. Part 1...
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This public symposium covers Alberta's progress to improve its flood and drought resiliency, including the role of natural solutions. NOTE: This is a 4 hour video with multiple presenters
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This presentation was a part of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, Hydraulic Fracturing in Western Canada: an Environmental Perspective Forum, in May of 2014.
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The various applications of Ducks Unlimited Canada’s wetland inventories play a critical role in wetland conservation. They serve as key planning tools, helping people who live and work in the boreal...
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The presentation describes the purpose and development of a water purification model that can be used to help decision-makers evaluate tradeoffs for land use development proposals
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In order to protect boreal wetlands, we must first know where they are. This 6-minute video will show you how Ducks Unlimited Canada uses satellite data and remote sensing techniques to map wetlands...
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Dr. Barry White reviews the progress made with LiDAR and wet area mapping in Alberta.
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Uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin region in Northern Saskatchewan was developed in the early 1950s. The mines developed during this period were abandoned, leaving deep holes and mining debris...
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Dianne Allen
Mark Calette
In 1960, the Lorado Mill was abandoned in northern Saskatchewan, leaving an estimated 227,000 cubic meters of radioactive uranium tailings that covered the mill site and flowed into nearby Nero Lake...
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At the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference, Bob Sanford - Chair, United Nations Water for Life Decade - gave a presentation about the variability of western Canada's climate, and what that may mean for the future.
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Jonathan Matthews is Director of Tailings EPA for Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). In his role of chairing presentations at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014 Conference, he provides a concise...
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Alexey Klyashtorin
Tamara Yankovich
The Gunnar Mine site is part of a cleanup project, Project CLEANS (Cleanup of Abandoned Northern Sites), managed by the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC). Significant progress was made at Gunnar...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (formerly NAIT Boreal Research Institute) is developing cost effective methods to restore the ecological functions of the decommissioned wellsites with the surrounding...
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An aquatic mesocosm facility consisting of thirty 15,000 L tanks was constructed in Vegreville, Alberta to support environmental research.
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G20 Global Land Initiative
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration
UN Environment Programme
On the occasion of Word Wetlands Day on 2 February 2023, the G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office in partnership with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
The NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (formerly NAIT Boreal Research Institute) is in the Peace River oilsands region of northwestern Alberta. One of the key research initiatives at the Centre is...
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At the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference, Thorsten Hebben from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development presented on the effects that drugs, personal care products and plasticizers have on wastewater in Alberta.