Land Management Search Results
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Many after-uses of aggregate extraction land do exist: forestry, agriculture, recreation, nature reserves, housing and waste disposal sites. Attempts at reclaiming this land for alternate uses has...
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Tracy Lee
Lea Randall
Nicole Kahal
Holly Kinas
Vanessa Carney
Heather Rudd
Tyne Baker
Ken Sanderson
Irena Creed
Axel Moehrenschlager
Danah Duke
Resource Date:
March
2022
Cities worldwide are expanding in area and human population, posing multiple challenges to amphibian populations, including habitat loss from removal of wetlands and terrestrial upland habitat...
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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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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
Resource Date:
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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Cladonia subgenus Cladina (the reindeer lichens) can be a dominant part of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. They are particularly abundant in arctic-alpine and boreal regions, where they are a...
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Wayne Pettapiece
Donald Acton
The concept of soil quality has evolved from an expression of productivity to an assessment of environmental sustainability. It now includes elements of health and time as well as biological...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Royal Alberta Museum
Alberta Science Network
An introduction to Alberta's wetland classifications and biodiversity, created for Alberta Science Network classroom presentations. A wetland is a part of the land that holds water temporarily or...
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Daniel Carter
Howard Loewenstein
Franklin Pitkin
Results of two experiments, one greenhouse project and one field study, indicate that high heavy metal concentrations in smelter-contaminated soils and in tree seedlings grown thereon, increase...
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To promote the establishment of vegetation, modified humic substances were added to gold mine tailings in rates of 2 g C kg -1, 3 g C kg -1 and 4 g C kg -1 tailings as an amendment. Growth chamber and...
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C.H. Shaw
J.S. Bhatti
K.J. Sabourin
The Forest Ecosystem Carbon Database presented in this report was compiled to meet the data needs of large-scale modelers and analysts working with the carbon budgets and dynamics of different forest...
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Loius Archambault
J. Morissette
In Quebec, the bioclimatic zone of balsam fir-yellow birch covers an area of 94,768 km 2. Some of the forest cover types in the area, such as balsam fir-yellow birch, are among the most productive in...
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Thomas Woodcock
Peter Kevan
Andrea McGraw-Alcock
In the summer of 2009, planning and research began at Waynco Ltd. (a subsidiary of Nelson Aggregate Co.) in Cambridge, which was nearing the final stages of rehabilitation. Although the soil hasn't...
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This is a compilation of on-line accessible papers from the 1977, 1992, 2010, 2013 and 2019 national conferences of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Some of the conferences were held jointly...
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Mary Hewitt
Morag McPherson
Melissa Tokarek
Factors such as nutrient poor soils, harsh climate, remote locations, and high costs make revegetating disturbed areas in northern environments a challenge. We present a case study where novel...
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H. Schiechtel
N. Horstmann
The bioengineering concept of reclamation developed in Europe is now becoming well established internationally with successful projects in Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa, Venezuela...
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Jordan Seider
Trevor Lantz
Txomin Hermosilla
Michael Wulder
Jonathan Wang
Temperature increases across the circumpolar north have driven rapid increases in vegetation productivity, often described as ‘greening’. These changes have been widespread, but spatial variation in...
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This report is a review of published literature on calcareous soils and their role in the productivity of coniferous forests in southwestern British Columbia and western Alberta. Definitions, origins...
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Did you know that you can learn to identify and report invasive species, measure trees, and become a citizen scientist all at the touch of your smartphone? Check out this list of free, Canadian field...
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A 22 slide presentation (exported as a pdf) providing an overview of effects of wind turbine development on Caribou.