Land Management Search Results
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Chris Powter
Marshall McKenzie
Christina Small
The Government of Alberta has long been a strong proponent of the use of native species for land reclamation and restoration projects. In 1973 the Department of Agriculture began an evaluation of...
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S. Gauthier
L. De Grandpré
C.H. Ung
D. Paré
Topics covered: A silvicultural approach more suited to boreal forests Defining old-growth forests within boreal forests Do ecological region and drainage have an impact on the site quality index of...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
In this 31st edition of The State of Canada’s Forests, the theme is Canada’s forests provide solutions to a changing world. The report highlights how the integrated social, environmental and economic...
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This document provides the full list of reports published by the Reclamation Research Technical Advisory Committee from 1979 to 1994
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Laura Finnegan
Suzanne Stevenson
Chris Johnson
Tracy McKay
Resource Date:
February
2021
With of goal of understanding how silviculture and harvesting practices might mirror those of natural disturbances, here we summarize research describing differences in responses of caribou and...
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The manual includes information on forty-four grasses, fourteen forbs and thirty-five trees and shrubs. The summary, presented in tabular form, provides, for key reclamation parameters,
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association
The question we are faced with today is: How do we establish a system or systems for measuring success in reclamation?
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
These are the minimum requirements that the Land Conservation and Reclamation Council will apply in assessing whether the reclamation of lands has been satisfactory
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Minimum reclamation standards that should be followed to ensure proper conservation and reclamation on patented and and land that was the property of the Crown but covered by the Public Lands Act
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Megan Hornseth
Karine Pigeon
Doug MacNearney
Terrence Larsen
Gordon Stenhouse
Jerome Cranston
Laura Finnegan
Natural regeneration of seismic lines, cleared for hydrocarbon exploration, is slow and often hindered by vegetation damage, soil compaction, and motorized human activity. There is an extensive...
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The Canadian Land Reclamation Association has been holding annual reclamation conferences since 1975.
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Jay Woosaree
Brij Verma
Byron James
Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remove, degrade or stabilize sites contaminated with organic or toxic chemicals is gaining in popularity as an alternative and economical technique in...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
J.-N. Candau
Canada’s forests endure natural disturbances annually, contributing to the overall health and structure of the forest. In central Canada, the boreal forest is affected annually by both wildfires and...
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Cassidy van Rensen
Scott Nielsena
Barry White
Tim Vinge
Victor Lieffers
Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine both their location and extent. Conventional clearing techniques for seismic assessment have left a legacy...
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Laura Finnegan
Karine Pigeon
Jerome Cranston
Mark Hebblewhite
Marco Musiani
Lalenia Neufeld
Fiona Schmiegelow
Julie Duval
Gordon Stenhouse
Resource Date:
April
2018
Across the boreal forest of Canada, habitat disturbance is the ultimate cause of caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) declines. Habitat restoration is a focus of caribou recovery efforts, with a goal...
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Resource Date:
September
2017
Rapid landscape alteration associated with human activity is currently challenging the evolved dynamical stability of many predator–prey systems by forcing species to behaviourally respond to novel...
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Guillaume Moreau
Catherine Chagnon
Alexis Achim
John Caspersen
Loïc D’Orangeville
Martina Sánchez-Pinillos
Nelson Thiffault
We reviewed recent literature to identify the positive and negative effects of thinning on both stand- and treelevel resistance and resilience to four stressors that are expected to increase in...
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B.C. Hawkes
S.W. Taylor
C. Stockdale
T.L. Shore
S.J. Beukema
D. Robinson
This paper examines the use of PrognosisBC (the BC variant of the Forest Vegetation Simulator) and the Northern Idaho variant of the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to project changes in stand...
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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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Authors
Bonnie Drozdowski
Craig Aumann
Chris Powter
Report of a seminar to develop a collective understanding of the benefits and opportunities of Predictive Soil Mapping as they relate to Alberta