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Barbara Darroch
Surya Acharya
AEC Hillcrest awned slender wheatgrass l Elymus tichycaulus subsp. subsecandus (Link) Gould] is a-reclamation variety developed for use in reclaiming and revegJtating oisturtea sites in the mountains...
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Soil quality criteria for Alberta's resource extraction industries were prepared by the Soil Quality Criteria Subcommittee of the Alberta Soils Advisory Committee. The document produced was intended...
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Sandra Landsburg
Karen Cannon
Nancy Finlayson
No clear relationships emerged between soil Orders, zones, or soil parent materials and the effect of pipeline construction on soil compaction. Soil moisture conditions appear to be more important.
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The Alberta Research Council has conducted a surface mine reclamation research program at the operations of Smoky River Coal Limited near Grande Cache, Alberta since 1972. The overall objective of...
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Sandra Landsburg
Karen Cannon
Available information indicates that overstripping and subsequent replacement of topsoil can produce horizon characteristics similar to plow depth characteristics resulting from cultivation
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Five common soil handling procedures for conservation of agricultural lands during pipeline construction are discussed in terms of their relative effectiveness for different soil types
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This document provides the full list of reports published by the Reclamation Research Technical Advisory Committee from 1979 to 1994
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Larry Turchenek
Wayne Tedder
R. Krzanowski
Methodology for cost-effective soil survey and sampling of cutover peatlands, and obtaining baseline chemical information and data interpretation for peat materials to examine reclamation alternatives
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Land Resources Network Ltd.
Organic amendments reviewed included animal manures, crop residues, peat, wood waste, sewage sludge, municipal yard waste, humates, vermicomposts and spent mushroom compost. The effect of these organi
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To assess climatic and soil conditions under which salts will move out of the root zone in a soil disturbed by a pipeline and to determine the rate at which salts will move in disturbed soils.
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 2 presents typical data and interpretations for each soil series in Alberta. The interpretations were made by applying the guidelines in Part 1, and checking the results against experience
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Study concentrated on the well-documented 1981 right-of-way, and compared it to the oldest trench, installed in 1957, and to the undisturbed adjacent mixed prairie
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Barbara Darroch
Michelle Pahl
Byron James
Results of germination experiments can be affected by contamination of seeds by fungi and bacteria. Seed surface disinfection is a useful method of reducing seed contamination.
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Jeffrey Green
Timothy Egmond
Caroline Wylie
Ian Jones
Len Knapik
Lawrence Paterson
Important considerations in reclamation planning and methods for reclamation are described for: agriculture, forestry, wildlife habitat, fish habitat, recreation, and residential/industrial use
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Karen Cannon
Nancy Finlayson
Sandra Landsburg
At each of the fifteen 1989 study areas and at each of the eight 1988 study areas soil strength was monitored using a cone penetrometer in 15 cm depth increments to a depth of 52.5 cm.
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Chris Powter
John Hogenbirk
If you are planning or undertaking revegetation using long-lived species such as trees then you should be giving some consideration to the environment they may experience in the future
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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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Reclamation of the land surface is what makes non-renewable resource developments sustainable. We must continue to strive to improve our science so that we can prove to regulators and the public that
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vernon Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a surface mine reclamation research program in association with the operations of Smoky River Coal Ltd. near Grande Cache, Alberta since 1972. The main...