Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Kevin Renkema
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby-James
Chris Powter
Practitioners tested the Guide to Variance Justifications on four of those sites; three had been previously approved and one had been submitted and was pending a decision.
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Regulatory expectations with respect to the detailed content of applications for approvals of surface disturbances and the reclamation of lands.
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December
2018
This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
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J.P. Hall
L.P. Magasi
L.W. Carlson
K. Stolte
E. Niebla
M. de Bauer
C.E. Gonzalez-Vincente
T. Hernández-Tejeda
Forests are environmentally and economically important in North America, and forest health is monitored to enable policy decisions to be made on factors affecting forest health. Forests are subject to...
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Vanessa Caron
M. Henley
Eduard Loos
Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby-James
In 2018, the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC) initiated a multi-stage project on the reclamation certification process for sites that were constructed using imported mineral soil pads in...
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Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
Sylvie L'Hirondelle
F. Theriault
No impact on jack pine physiology was found when concentrations of the dominant pollutants from Oil Sands operations equivalent to 104 years of soluble disposition were added to intact soil cores
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Studies to determine levels and impacts of soil disturbance caused during root-disease control by stump removal were initiated on a cutover on southern Vancouver Island immediately prior to the...
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Cold stratification for two weeks at 5°C before germination showed no significant difference in the average percent germination between the stratified and unstratified seeds.
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Francis Salifu
Jay Woosaree
Sean Wells
Bruce Anderson
Screens native grasses [fringed brome grass (Bromus ciliatus), June grass (Koeleria macrantha), a mix of native grasses with barley and oats (Avena sativa) for suitability to grow and stabilise tailin
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M. Hickman
S.E.D. Charlton
C.G. Jenkerson
Largest mean standing crops for the June to November period occurred in the Steepbank, Ells, and Hangingstone Rivers, while largest mean production rates occurred in the Ells and Muskeg rivers.
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A set of 11 sites were established in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program study area to provide baseline information on vegetation and soils with respect to air pollution impact
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Artificial substrates were employed, water chemistry parameters measured, taxonomic identifications carried out, and productivity measurements conducted to elucidate bacterial and algal productivity
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Jack pine, when fumigated with SO2 at the ambient air quality standards, exhibited various biochemical responses that can have a deleterious effect on the normal growth and yield of vegetation.
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Jim Sherstabetoff
B.G. Dunsworth
Sam Takyi
Extensive collections made of seeds of trees and shrubs native to the AOSERP study area for use in future nursery production and field trials. Data collected on seedling survival and performance
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Two 3-day small mammal trapping periods were conducted on 2 woodland areas. Surveys of species composition and density of ground cover and saplings, and of the levels of small mammal damage completed
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S.S. Malhotra
Paul Addison
Six woody forest species showed a gradual decline in CO2 gas exchange which was related to symptom development characteristic of SO2 toxicity. Paper birch most sensitive species, black spruce least
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Paul Addison
S.S. Malhotra
Deciduous trees and shrubs were much more sensitive than conifers, presumably because SO2 can enter broad leaves much more easily than needles. Jack pine was more sensitive than spruce
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Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
Knowledge Exchange Workshop focused on centralization, collection, distribution and synthesis of knowledge, information and data related to reclamation
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Jon Hornung
Carla Wytrykush
G. Haekel
Theo Charette
Marsha Trites
Subject matter experts were asked to participate in a multi-year process to review, interpret and synthesise results on marsh (open water wetland) reclamation and research in the oil sands region
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This report profiles Canada’s success in conserving forest biodiversity. It also assesses our progress in meeting commitments under the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy.