Land Management Search Results
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Shauna-Lee Chai
Amy Nixon
Scott Nielsen
Assessed 16 potentially new invasive plant species not yet present in Alberta for their invasiveness and climate change-related risk
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
On May 30, 1968 G.C.O.S requested permission to discharge 110 x 106 ft3 of effluent from the sands tailings pond at the Fort McMurray site into the Athabasca River during periods of high river flow
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These guidelines are designed to help land users minimize, or avoid, potential adverse effects on selected wildlife and wildlife resources when conducting activities on public and private lands within...
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Alberta Environmental Protection, Technical Services and Monitoring Division
Study was undertaken in response to concerns raised by the City of Fort McMurray over the validity of the elevation established in previous studies as representing the 1 in 100 year design flood level
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Steve Hrudey
Richard Nelson
The literature on tainting of fish by petroleum-derived compounds has been reviewed for information specifically relevant to the potential for tainting of fish in the Athabasca River
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Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
Jean Turgeon
Hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae Annand) has recently invaded Canada and is threatening the survival of eastern hemlock. An important part of the management of the hemlock woolly adelgid is...
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Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Concerns about soil compaction on pipeline rights-of-way have increased with the introduction of heavier, more powerful construction equipment
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Anne Naeth
Donna White
David Chanasyk
Terry Macyk
Chris Powter
Don Thacker
To provide coordinated direction for reclamation research in Alberta, the need to review the current understanding and the role of soil physical properties in soil disturbance related activities was...
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V. Fewster
Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
La spongieuse ( Lymantria dispar) est un insecte défoliateur non indigène naturalisé. La spongieuse a une prédilection pour le chêne, mais elle s’attaque à plusieurs autres essences d’arbres indigènes...
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V. Fewster
Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
Spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar) is a naturalized non-native pest that prefers oak leaves, but it can defoliate several other tree species native to Canada. Repeated high rates of defoliation by spongy...
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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All reported archaeological finds in the Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem of Alberta and pertinent ethnohistorical and ethnographic literature concerning Native Groups of the general region are reviewed
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Erin Bayne
Cameron Nordell
Jesse Watson
Melynda Johnson
Adam Moltzahn
Janet Ng
The Ferruginous Hawk (FEHA) has been listed as an Endangered Species under the Alberta Wildlife Act by the provincial government since 2006 (Alberta FEHA Recovery Team 2009); and were re-listed as a...
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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Rob Johns
Véronique Martel
The spruce budworm is a native forest insect that inhabits the spruce-fir forests of northeastern North America. Outbreaks of this insect occur every 30 to 40 years. During this cycle, populations...
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The present note is a brief outline of the contents of a user's compendium and guide to stem decay in living trees in Ontario's forests.
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As a consequence of climate change, current landscape patterns are unlikely to persist in the future. The types of ecological changes expected to occur as the climate warms are described
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Kate Wilson explains how Alberta is dealing with managing invasive species, and how the process is going.
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Video showing a climate change adaptation transplanting trial of northern blazing star from Duchess, Alberta to the boreal zone.