Land Management Search Results
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Angeline Van Dongen
Caren Jones
Amanda Schoonmaker
Jill Harvey
Dani Degenhardt
Resource Date:
November
2022
Alberta’s forests are becoming increasingly disturbed and fragmented by the cumulative effects of anthropogenic disturbances exacerbated by the enduring footprint of seismic lines on the landscape...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Mandates: 1. Creating oil sands environmental management knowledge, 2. Sharing oil sands environmental management information, and 3. Networking to link researchers with funders and other researchers
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Through the development of two Department of Environment programs; namely, the Regional Landfill Program and the H.S.T.F. Land Reclamation Program and the enactment of the Sand and Gravel regulations...
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Reclamation of the land surface is what makes non-renewable resource developments sustainable. We must continue to strive to improve our science so that we can prove to regulators and the public that
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The revegetation of tailings sand slopes that result from tar sands extraction pose many problems. The tailings material has a low moisture holding capacity, contains low amounts of plant nutrients...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Al Fedkenheuer
Robert Faye
Nancy Finlayson
Sheila Luther
T.J. Patterson
Objective was to evaluate several pipeline topsoil stripping depths to determine whether they result in land capability equivalent to that of adjacent forested lands broken for cultivation
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Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Topsoil stripping of forested soils and its subsequent replacement would result in horizon characteristics similar to those of the plough depth resulting from farming practices
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Horizon Project reclamation goal is to achieve self-sustaining ecosystems with capability equivalent to predevelopment conditions using locally common boreal forest communities as a guide for reveg
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vernon Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a surface mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since 1972. The main...
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Chibuike Chigbo
Amanda Schoonmaker
Dani Degenhardt
Land application of biosolids may be an effective strategy to improve soil quality and better support the establishment of native vegetative cover on an industrial footprint with marginal soil...
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L.M. Hachey
Audrey Lanoue
The focus of this paper is the development of a physically sound three-dimensional model of the final closure landscape for the 2011 Life of Mine Closure submission
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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There is uncertainty related to the long-term consequences of reconstructing landscapes on Alberta’s specified lands. Alberta has over 100,000 wellsites that have been certified under evolving...
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Marc-André Parisien
Resource Date:
April
2018
The boreal forests of Alberta have dense networks of seismic exploration lines which have been shown to contribute significantly to the decline in woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)...
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AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Report provides a summary of wildlife habitat information for oil sands reclamation
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Virgil Hawkes
Travis Gerwing
Degree of similarity suggests that comparable ecological functionality is possible, increasing probability that oil sands operators will fulfill their regulatory requirement reclaim wildlife habitat
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The objectives of the study are to provide recommendations on the most suitable methods for establishing and maintaining self-sustaining and productive plant communities in the Alberta tar sands area