Land Management Search Results
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Gerald Ontkean provides a history of the science of assessing soils for irrigation suitability from 1915 with the enactment of Alberta's Irrigation Act.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
Lorne Fitch takes us on a tour through the natural regions of Alberta.
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This presentation discusses the prairie hydrological cycle and explains the influence of temperature, soil composition and significant evapotranspiration.
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Resource Date:
February
2012
This presentation describes the ways that LiDAR has helped some of the challenges previously encountered in data collection for the surficial geology mapping program.
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This presentation gives an overview of how reclamation practices have evolved over the past several decades, and how the science and research has translated into policy and regulation.
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This presentation discusses the keys to successful natural regeneration of serotinous pine, including adaptations, the value of fire and cone droppage, and current research being undertaken.
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This presentation describes the role of trembling aspen in Alberta's boreal forests, and lays out the process of reclamation when aiming for ecosystem resiliency.
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Resource Date:
February
2017
This presentation discusses explains how climate change and land use changes impact water supply and how we can adapt.
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Jason House described the inverse relationship of soil carbon in peat-mineral soil mix and water stress on lodgepole pine growth on reclaimed oilsands tailing sands.
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This presentation provides some basic methods for identifying grasses, forbs and wetland species in Alberta.