Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Summary of a survey to determine the reclamation research needs of organizations/industries in Alberta that are involved with industrial disturbances and to prioritize research needs.
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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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Christina Semeniuk
Byron Weckworth
Marco Musiani
Mark Hebblewhite
Anthropogenic disturbances contribute to the way animals perceive and respond to their environment. These multiple disturbances can additionally act in non-independent ways to shape an animal’s...
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Anna Dabros
Matthew Pyper
Guillermo Castilla
Resource Date:
February
2018
The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is seismic lines...
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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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Karen Cannon
Sandra Landsburg
Concerns about soil compaction on pipeline rights-of-way have increased with the introduction of heavier, more powerful construction equipment
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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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This study examined three pervasive issues that impacted native ecosystems. Numerous land use practices including oil and gas activities have led to the modification of native grasslands both the...
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Craig DeMars
Kendal Benesh
The boreal ecotype of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is provincially Red-listed in British Columbia and federally listed as Threatened. Population declines of boreal caribou have been...
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Paul King
G. Granger
A. Straka
The results of preliminary experiments on pre-germination treatment methods for nine selected native woody plant species for disturbed land reclamation in the Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes of Alberta.
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.
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The Development and Reclamation Review process, as it currently operates, is presented and discussed with the aid of a flow chart. Suggestions are made to improve and expedite the process with...
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Karine Pigeon
Meghan Anderson
Doug MacNearney
Jerome Cranston
Gordon Stenhouse
Laura Finnegan
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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Understanding how populations are structured and how they use natural and anthropogenic spaces is essential for effective wildlife management. A total of 510 barren-ground ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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Marco Musiani talks about research on caribou and development in west-central Alberta and British Columbia. An Associate Professor for the University of Calgary, Muisiani shows and explains the...
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Aseniwuche Winewak Nation
A brief video outlining what the Caribou Patrol Program does, who we are and how we came to be.
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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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An online seminar developed by InnoTech Alberta and Acden Vertex for Indigenous opportunity seekers, the energy industry and service providers.