Land Management Search Results
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Study concentrated on the well-documented 1981 right-of-way, and compared it to the oldest trench, installed in 1957, and to the undisturbed adjacent mixed prairie
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Majid Iravani
Monica Kohler
Shannon White
The results showed a pronounced variation in the historic supply of soil organic carbon and aboveground biomass in the watershed. Land management resulted in a diverse range of gains or losses.
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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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NOVA, AN ALBERTA CORPORATION embarked on a research and development project approximately one and one-half years ago to develop a machine capable of stripping frozen topsoil . The result was a...
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The Alberta Research Council, Inc. (ARC) has conducted a surface coal mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since...
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Recent decline of trembling aspen ( Populus tremuloides Michx.) near St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, prompted a study to document the onset and progress of aspen decline and to examine how past climate...
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Objectives of the Twelve Mile Coulee Soil Research Project are to evaluate the impact of pipeline construction on Solonetzic soil quality and salt movement in the Brown soil zone
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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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Amy Nixon
Christopher Shank
Dan Farr
The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project has produced a comprehensive, evidence-based, and original examination of the effects of climate change on Alberta’s biodiversity
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This guidebook explains vegetation management tools and techniques. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service (NRCan-CFS) developed this guidebook to help with the successional restoration of...
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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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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
The Wetland Atlas describes the distribution of wetlands in Alberta and summarizes human footprint around open water wetlands. Also included are research spotlights on wetland biodiversity including...
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Christopher Evans
Vincent Gauci
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and restoration of wetlands play a key role. This report outlines the contribution of wetlands to global methane output; differences between...
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Jay Woosaree
Marshall McKenzie
The 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities for Native Grasslands was released in June of 2011 to relieve then current backlog of processing Reclamation Certificate...
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Jeffrey Green
Alan Nilson
To compensate for losses of wildlife habitat associated with the construction and operation of the Oldman River dam in southern Alberta, an extensive wildlife habitat mitigation program has been...
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M. Nietfeld
J. Wilk
K. Woolnough
B. Hoskin
Summarize information to assist in defining species habitat relationships relevant to Alberta environments for a number of Alberta wildlife species to aid in developing habitat interpretation models