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Regeneration planning is key to ensuring the establishment of target vegetation rather than undesired competitors. Careful planning can accelerate regeneration by 5-10 years or more.
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The footprint left by infrastructure and equipment can create different challenges for establishing vegetation. The best site preparation method depends on the limiting factors present.
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Reclaiming industrial sites in Alberta's boreal forest is not always a straightforward process. The footprints left by infrastructure and equipment are often characterized by compacted mineral soils...
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Soil compaction frequently results from industrial disturbance on mineral soils, whether due to infrastructure or equipment traffic. Soil compaction tends to be most severe on sites with high clay...
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Soil salvage is a pre-disturbance technique to conserve a site's topsoil, which is critical for maintaining nutrient cycling, organic matter, soil biota and plant propagules. In some cases, subsoil...
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K. Chapman
K.A. Baldwin
S. Basquill
M. Major
W.J. Meades
C. Morneau
J.-P. Saucier
P.W.C. Uhlig
M.C. Wester
Upland boreal forest communities (Associations) of Eastern Canada are classified within Macrogroup M495 [Eastern North American Boreal Forest] of the Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC)...
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Vegetation management is a critical component of a successful reclamation program. Reclamation activities following industrial disturbances can make many sites vulnerable to ingress by undesirable...
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Philip Tsui
B.R. McMahon
Peter McCart
J.V. McCart
Mine depressurization groundwater was acutely toxic to the three species of invertebrates tested. The 90 d LC50 was 8.5 to 9% for rainbow trout, 13.2% for lake chub, and 5.8% for white suckers.
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Milo Mihajlovich
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
This resource is an excerpt from an issue of Canadian Reclamation (Issue 4, Vol 14) containing and article advising practitioners on best practices for vegetation management using the Life Cycle...
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In 1941, the Canadian Forestry Service (CFS) established a commercial thinning trial in a 77-year-old lodgepole pine-dominated stand near Kananaskis, Alberta. Seventy percent of the total volume was...
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M. Hickman
S.E.D. Charlton
C.G. Jenkerson
Diatoms and blue-green algae dominated numericallyin five tributary rivers flowing into the Athabasca River except in the Hangingstone River where chlorophycean species replaced the latter group
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Tanya Richens
Steve Tuttle
CEMA, a multi-stakeholder organisation advising the provincial and federal governments, is committed to respectful, inclusive dialogue to make recommendations for cumulative effects management
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A co-ordinated plan is proposed for the identification of toxic emissions from oil sand developments in the AOSERP study area based on interviews with over 40 specialists in various fields
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Authors
Nick Salafsky
Robyn Irvine
Judy Boshoven
Jaclyn Lucas
Kent Prior
Jean-François Bisaillon
Becky Graham
Paul Harper
André Laurin
Amanda Lavers
Lalenia Neufeld
Richard Margoluis
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October
2021
There is currently a great deal of work being undertaken to collect, analyze, and synthesize available evidence about the effectiveness of conservation strategies. But substantial challenges still...
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Brian Croft
A. Lamb
R.N. Dawson
Based on meteorological and historical fog data, Fort McMurray Airport experiences 4 to 5 days with ice fog and 18 total days with fog per year covering 320 to 1580 km2
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The analysis of bear-human interactions in the AOSERP study area indicated that the major conflict arises from nuisance bears attracted to areas by garbage
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Peter Nix
Jill Costerton
R. Ventullo
R.T. Coutts
A literature review and evaluation of methods used to determine rates of bacterial uptake (heterotrophic assimilation) of organic substrates in fresh water systems was undertaken
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84 stands were chosen as representative of all the major vegetation types in the study area. The structure and species composition of each stand was described
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Ross Eccles
Richard Salter
Jeffrey Green
Although the capability currently exists to reclaim disturbed areas as wildlife habitat, no guidelines have been developed for evaluating success of wildlife habitat reclamation efforts