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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
In summer 2013 field crews spent five weeks sampling soil and vegetation indicators at 18 wellsites and adjacent reference sites in the Dry Mixedgrass subregion of Alberta
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Reconstructed soils representing different materials handling and replacement techniques were characterized and variability in chemical and physical properties was assessed
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Chris Powter
Brent Scorfield
Brent Lakeman
Shane Patterson
The development of integrated geomatics and remote sensing technologies for environmental management holds promise to meet economic diversification and effective environmental management.
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Long-term monitoring of some sites would ultimately be needed to show that recovering wellsites are on a trajectory that consistently leads to full recovery.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
Monitoring protocols for forested land wellsites to determine if a reclaimed site has returned to similar structure and function as found in a representative undisturbed reference area.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Select appropriate vegetation, soil, and habitat indicators for a long-term reclamation monitoring program and provide sampling protocols for the selected indicators.
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Our statistical design and the hands on learning experience we gained in the field can be applied when implementing the long-term monitoring program for certified wellsites.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Three workshops were held to examine a suite of vegetation, soil, and habitat indicators that could potentially be used to monitor recovery in a long-term reclamation monitoring program
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Data show that for many vegetation and soil indicators, wellsite development impacts are long lasting and may remain for 30 years or more after reclamation.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report provides the monitoring protocols for cultivated land wellsites.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report provides the monitoring protocols for forested land wellsites.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report provides the monitoring protocols for grassland wellsites.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
The Ecological Recovery Monitoring Program should be implemented in stages to allow for incorporation of learnings and additional research to support design of protocols for new disturbance types.
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ERMP Project Advisory Group
This report describes several specialized monitoring techniques that were evaluated during the Ecological Recovery Monitoring Program Pilot.
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Angelo Filicetti
Scott Nielsen
Energy exploration has led to fragmentation of habitats worldwide. In boreal forests of Alberta, Canada narrow clear-cut linear disturbances (3–14 m wide) called seismic lines are often the largest...
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Sini-Selina Salko
Jussi Juola
Iuliia Burdun
Harri Vasander
Miina Rautiainen
Boreal peatlands store ~25 % of global soil organic carbon and host many endangered species; however, they face degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic drainage. In boreal peatlands...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
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November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
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Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Maria Strack
Michael Cody
Bin Xu
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April
2021
This article outlines the results of monitoring two restored oil sands exploration sites, and discusses the effectiveness of treatments on tree recovery and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...