Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Catherine Brown
The practice of mulching forested sites for industrial activities during winter operations is a useful construction practice as it minimizes soil disturbance by protecting the forest floor. However...
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Increasing use and/or degradation of ecosystems requires development of effective strategies for restoration. Urban developments, industrial uses, including mining, oil and gas and forestry, as well...
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Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Soil management, or soil conservation, deals with some aspect of protecting soil resources and using soils in a sustainable manner.
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Vegetation management is critical to establishing desirable plant species and to achieving reclamation objectives. This resource is one of four technical notes on vegetation management for reclamation...
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David McNabb
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
The trafficking of soils by industrial equipment generally causes an increase in soil density and loss of soil structure. The effects of moderate to severe compaction and loss of soil structure on the...
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David McNabb
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Frozen soils are the most difficult soils to till and many cannot be plowed with RipPlows or require some specific practices to increase the probability of success. The depth of frozen soil that...
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February
2021
In forest reclamation, the use of nursery stock seedlings is often desirable as this plant material provides greater assurance of woody plant cover development, whereas leave-for-natural-recovery...
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January
2016
With over 75 years of experience and activity in every province and territory, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a registered charity and a recognized leader in wetland conservation. DUC is a science...
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Dr. Richard McCleary draws the links between what we see in the field to the maps we have for planning and points out that the information we need for watershed assessment and riparian zones is the same.
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Doug Eyford speaks to the changing climate among First Nations and governments in Canada and discusses Canada`s proposed National Reconciliation Framework.
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Drs. Anne Naeth & Vic Adamowicz present "Land and People: An Outlook of Opportunity or Inevitable Decline", the AIA commissioned Green Paper to be authored at arms length by peer recognized experts.
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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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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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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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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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Video showing a climate change adaptation transplanting trial of northern blazing star from Duchess, Alberta to the boreal zone.