Land Management Search Results
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Paul Jefferson
Paul McCaughey
Ken May
Jay Woosaree
Linden McFarlane
The utilization of native grass species for potential biomass feedstocks of the emerging ethanol industry requires more information about their cellulose and hemicellulose concentration. Ten native...
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Nelson Thiffault
Caludie-Maude Canuel
Michael Hoepting
James Farrell
This fact sheet provides an overview of a study on the management implications of pre-commercial thinning in balsam fir. While the effects of pre-commercial thinning on stand growth and quality are...
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Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine size of reserves. These linear disturbances fragment forests and in many cases fail to regenerate trees...
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Jim Schieck
T. Muhly
Dave Huggard
P. Solymos
D. Pan
Scott Heckbert
Erin Bayne
We used information from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) on birds, plants, human footprint, and vegetation, plus information from Dr. Bayne on birds, to test a new method for...
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Heather Tokay
Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Chris Powter
Bonnie Drozdowski
Natalie Shelby-James
In 2021, PTAC sought verification of the Guide to Preparing Variance Justifications and stakeholders were asked to apply the document to current sites in their work portfolio.
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Upland mesic sites showed a relatively strong ability to regenerate on their own (passive restoration), while lowland (bogs and fens) and upland dry sites were slow to recover.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Resource Date:
January
2020
Linear features, including seismic lines, pipelines, transmission lines, roads, railways, and trails are pervasive in Alberta’s boreal forest and have been implicated as a primary factor leading to...
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Where forest floor was protected from disturbance, there were approximately 10 times as many aspen sprouts that were at least 3 times as tall as sprouts in the area where floor was stripped & replaced
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Anne McIntosh
Bonnie Drozdowski
Dani Degenhardt
Chris Powter
Christina Small
John Begg
Dan Farr
Arnold Janz
Randi Lupardus
Delinda Ryerson
Jim Schieck
Scientifically robust monitoring protocol to enable consistent assessment of ecological recovery of physical, chemical, and biological indicators at certified reclaimed well pads on grasslands.
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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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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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Terry Macyk
Martin Fung
Ron Pauls
Syncrude Canada Ltd. produces 200,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day from its oil sands surface mining operations located 50 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The three major types of...
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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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Chris Powter
Neil Chymko
Gordon Dinwoodie
Darlene Howat
Arnold Janz
Ryan Puhlmann
Tanya Richens
Don Watson
Heather SInton
Kevin Ball
Andy Etmanski
Bruce Patterson
Larry Brocke
Ralph Dyer
Alberta’s industrial land conservation and reclamation program developed over 48 yr from an initial focus on surface debris removal and safety to increasing emphasis on returning ecological function
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Terry Osko
Maggie Glasgow
Wellsite reclamation criteria in Alberta have historically been based on a paradigm of returning land to equivalent land capability. Unfortunately, this paradigm has treated all landscapes as...
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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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Fuse Consulting Ltd
Swamp Donkey
FPInnovations
Resource Date:
January
2020
Restoration Innovation Roadmap Phase 2: A summary of opportunities to advance innovation for linear restoration within woodland caribou habitat Restoration of woodland caribou habitat has received...
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A field experiment from 2012 to 2013 at two locations in northeastern Alberta examined the short-term success of different fen revegetation strategies following the removal of infrastructure (road and...
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Fact Sheets for each of the four monitoring programs: ABMI, CEMA, RAMP and WBEA. Stakeholders lack detailed understanding of the suite of monitoring activities taking place in the oil sands
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Steve Hrudey
Richard Nelson
The literature on tainting of fish by petroleum-derived compounds has been reviewed for information specifically relevant to the potential for tainting of fish in the Athabasca River