Land Management Search Results
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Erik Emilson
Isabelle Aubin
The 2 Billion Trees (2BT) program offers a unique opportunity to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while simultaneously ensuring co-benefits to water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. The...
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Authors
Daphne Cheel
Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Don Thacker
Terry Macyk
Report synthesizes and summarizes 36 RRTAC reports to provide the user with a unified source of information on land and groundwater reclamation research in the plains of Alberta
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Jeffrey Green
Timothy Egmond
Caroline Wylie
Ian Jones
Len Knapik
Lawrence Paterson
Important considerations in reclamation planning and methods for reclamation are described for: agriculture, forestry, wildlife habitat, fish habitat, recreation, and residential/industrial use
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The AWC decided to investigate the main risks and opportunities for water management in the province through the Alberta Water Futures project.
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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This report identifies historical, annual and open water, low flow sequences for 13 stations in the Athabasca River Basin which can be used to determine management guidelines for the River basin
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This is a compilation of on-line accessible papers from the 1982, 1985 and 1986 conferences of the Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association. This list will be updated periodically.
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Authors
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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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
The Decision Support Systems (DSS) uses a scenario approach to guiding reclamation and restoration activities. This resource follows the Landscape Treatment Process for Forest Land (Upland). DSS are...
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The Emend for Schools: 360° Video EMEND Tour Teachers Resource is a full lesson plan and 360 immersive and interactive video teaching tool, including a teacher lesson plan and student workbook aligned...
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J.P. Verschuren
L. Wojtiw
Point measurements of maximum depth showed that over 50% of the rainstorms occur in June and July, with only a small percentage in April (5.6) and September (10. 1).
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Authors
Chris Powter
Richard Dixon
Nicolas Mansuy
Based on 115 respondents, the survey highlights that the R&R economy in Alberta is robust, with 2 056 employees working at least part-time and 1 488 fulltime equivalent positions.
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Resource Date:
January
2018
The Guide to Watershed Management Planning in Alberta provides advice on the steps to develop and implement a watershed management plan.
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A primary goal of this Guideline is to emphasize the long-standing preference for reclaiming and restoring public lands to the pre-disturbance land use type.
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This practitioner guide provides a user-friendly overview of the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and what these interactions mean for forest managers working in Canada’s boreal.
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
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Resource Date:
November
2008
An overview of the process elements for compiling and evaluating existing and available information for the purpose of completing a broad-scale screening of the physical features, resources and conditions of a watershed.
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Authors
Roderick Allan
Togwell Jackson
Dredged sediments and sediment cores were collected from sites along the Athabasca River system from between Fort McMurray and the confluence of Riviere des Rochers with the Slave River
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Authors
Jeff Wilson
Scott Heckbert
Craig Aumann
Marius Cutlac
William Donahue
Mike Kennedy
Yongbo Liu
Daiyuan Pan
Wanhong Yang
The model documentation summarizes the data, variables and assumptions required to capture how water purification services are provided across landscapes in Alberta
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Rivers in Southern Alberta are vulnerable to climate change because much of the river water originates as snow in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.