Land Management Search Results
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Anne Naeth
Konstantin Dlusskiy
Leonard Leskiw
Chris Powter
Andy Etmanski
Humans impact everything, including our soil. We remove, mix and compact soil horizons. We add amendments, including waste materials, to replace soil or improve its health. Soils that that have been...
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Andrew Crosby
Lionel Leston
Erin Bayne
Péter Sólymos
Lisa Mahon
Judith Toms
Teegan Docherty
Samantha Song
We estimated cumulative effects of energy sector development on distributions of sixteen migratory songbird species at multiple spatial scales within the boreal region of Alberta, Canada, and...
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The sustainability of a landscape and its host community post-mining depends on careful and effective mine closure and reclamation planning. Such planning has the potential to support the renewal of...
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Sarah Ficko
Diane Haughland
Anne Naeth
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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James Saracco
Peter Pyle
Danielle Kaschube
Monica Kohler
Christine Godwin
Kenneth Foster
Habitat loss and disturbance from industrial resource development may be contributing to declines in boreal bird populations. We applied hierarchical multi-species models to data from 31 bird species...
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Xuehui Sun
Wenqing Zhang
Robert Vassov
Ira Sherr
Ning Du
Janusz Zwiazek
The land disturbed by open-pit oil sands mining must be restored to support the survival and growth of native boreal plants. Because tailings sand and sodic shale overburden are commonly used as an...
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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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Study Focus: Six years of hydrochemical data (2013 – 2018) from the Sandhill Fen Watershed (SFW), a 52-ha upland-peatland catchment that was built upon highly saline soft tailings, were used to...
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Syncrude first began investigating the Water-Capped Tailings Technology (WCTT) in the early 1980’s through the establishment of a research program founded on progressive scaled-up testing of water...
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Erin Bayne
Jacqueline Dennett
Jenet Dooley
Monica Kohler
Jeff Ball
Mark Bidwell
Andrew Braid
John Chetelat
Eric Dillegeard
Dan Farr
Jason Fisher
Maureen Freemark
Ken Foster
Christine Godwin
Craig Hebert
Dave Huggard
Dianne McIssac
Tara Narwani
Scott Nielsen
Bruce Pauli
Sanjay Prasad
David Roberts
Simon Slater
Samantha Song
Stella Swanson
Phil Thomas
Judith Toms
Colin Twitchell
Shannon White
Faye Wyatt
Lukas Mundy
One of the theme areas monitored within the OSM program is terrestrial biodiversity, known programmatically as Terrestrial Biological Monitoring (TBM). Biodiversity refers to the diversity of wild...
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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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This report summarizes up to 39 years of plant community development trends on Syncrude’s reclaimed mine sites near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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William Wadsworth
Ave Dersch
Robin Woywitka
Kisha Supernant
The Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) region of Alberta has one of the densest accumulations of known archaeological sites, and possibly the most archaeological sites at risk, in the country. Expanding...
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Vincent Boulanger-Martel
Bruno Bussière
Jean Côté
Insulation covers are an appealing reclamation approach to control sulfide oxidation in tailings storage facilities located in the Arctic. In this study, the thermal behaviour and effectiveness of...
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Syncrude's Base Mine Lake (BML) is the first, and currently the only full-scale commercial demonstration of the end pit lake technology in the oil sands industry. An oil sands end pit lake (EPL) is an...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Chibuike Chigbo
Brad Pinno
Robert Albricht
Resource Date:
April
2019
Temporary Reforestation of Soil Stockpiles: Using Nature to More Effectively Achieve Future Land Reclamation Goals in a Forested Landscape Industrial disturbances, whether in the mining or oil and gas...
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Virgil Hawkes
Travis Gerwing
Degree of similarity suggests that comparable ecological functionality is possible, increasing probability that oil sands operators will fulfill their regulatory requirement reclaim wildlife habitat
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The footprint left by infrastructure and equipment can create different challenges for establishing vegetation. The best site preparation method depends on the limiting factors present.
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The Athabasca oil sands are a significant component of the economy in Alberta. However, they also represent a large environmental risk. At the end of mining operations, companies are expected to begin...
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Robert Bott
Graham Chandler
Peter McKenzie-Brown
This book is written to help assess how effectively we have, or are, conserving our land base and providing the stewardship required to pass our legacy on to our progeny.