Land Management Search Results
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
As of 2015, 29.2% of Alberta is under human footprint, up from 25.7% in 1999—that’s an average increase of about 0.22%, or around 1450 km2 (560 sections) per year.
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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
From1999 to 2015, human activity in Alberta visibly converted over 23,000 km2 of native ecosystems into residential, recreational, or industrial landscapes
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Resource Date:
August
2021
With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
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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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Welcome to MarshWatch! MarshWatch is a new pilot program focused on wetland birds and amphibians for beginners. Virtual webinars along with self-guided activities slowly build your identification...
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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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Jim Schieck, research scientist at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta. He talks about the pilot study of how to use...
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
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Shannon White
Jim Herbers
Jasmine Janes
Sarah Depoe
Shannon R. White is the Biodiversity Specialist for the Land-use Framework Regional Planning Branch for ESRD. She discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers...
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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta
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Presentation tracks the evolution in technology used to monitor birds by recording their songs, with examples from different regions of the province.
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Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...
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Monitoring and conservation of rare species, particularly in the boreal forests of northern Alberta, is a challenge due to knowledge gaps on distribution and abundance of species
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The presentation describes ABMI's role in collecting monitoring data and how the data can be used in environmental management.
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On 19th June 2023, BirdWatch Ireland hosted an online presentation by Dr. Flo Renou Wilson, peatland expert from University College Dublin. Participants included members of different organisations...
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Norman Allard Jr.
Tom Biebighauser
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February
2023
I am pleased to share the full short film The Wetlands. In 2017 Lower Kootenay Band began planning the restoration of a number of wetland impoundments created in the late 1960's to mid 1980's. Due to...
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Jason Fisher is the Senior Research Scientist in Wildlife Ecology for Alberta Innovates and his presentation is about White-tailed deer in boreal Alberta. White-tailed deer are expanding their...
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Evan DeLancey
Fiona Gregory
Agatha Czekajlo
ABMI's new Alberta-wide Wetland Inventory: how it was generated, R&D to improve wetland mapping/monitoring data, and how this tool can be used in land-use decision making
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Cold Lake First Nation has been working with the Airshed and Watershed Stewardship Branch in the Indigenous Lake Monitoring Program since 2017. The long-term goal of this program is to support shared...