Land Management Search Results
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The presentation describes the development and content of the draft Biodiversity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca Region
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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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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation describes how the Alberta oil and gas industry decided to go with a oil/gas spill cooperative rather than having individual company spill response units.
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This presentation was a part of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, Hydraulic Fracturing in Western Canada: an Environmental Perspective Forum, in May of 2014.
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Lois Boxill is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with SRK Consulting. She describes the concepts and testing involved in her Ph.D thesis studying how mature fine tailings behave after treatment with...
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Resource Date:
November
2014
Dr. David Andison describes how an ecosystem approach would work with woodland caribou habitat recovery. At the core of a ecosystem management approach is the question: "What would Mother Nature Do?"
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Dr. David Andison is program lead of the fRI Healthy Landscapes program. He begins by explaining the "Why" of ecosystem management and how current approaches to land management fragments the landscape...
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The presentation covers the use of remote sensing in assessing biodiversity and how using covariate data can improve on the interpretation of results
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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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Authors
Nicholas Beier
Dave Sego
Norbert Morgenstern
Dr. Nicholas Beier is a Research Associate with the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. He describes his doctoral thesis research using tailings management...
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Resource Date:
November
2014
Jim Schieck discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta.
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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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The presentation describes the purpose and development of a water purification model that can be used to help decision-makers evaluate tradeoffs for land use development proposals
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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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Resource Date:
March
2012
This presentation discusses the different ways that LiDAR data can be effectively used in forestry management applications.
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This presentation discusses the forest rehabilitation and regeneration research done with the Beyond Beetle project.
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This presentation provides an example oaf how Wet Areas Mapping and LiDAR can be used as a tool to monitor biodiversity.
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This presentation discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers, monitoring and management response and reporting.
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Video showing a climate change adaptation transplanting trial of northern blazing star from Duchess, Alberta to the boreal zone.
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Authors
Alvin First Rider
Justin Bruised head
Truman Big Swallow
Jamison Lucas Russell
Members of the Káínawa – or Blood Tribe – are applying training in western science, alongside their Indigenous Knowledge, to bring buffalo back to their historical habitat in southern Alberta, the...