Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Upon abandonment, wellsites must be reclaimed to the standards as described in Alberta’s 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities in Forested Lands. The initial planning and...
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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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Fabien St-Pierre
Pierre Drapeau
Martin-Hughes St-Laurent
Resource Date:
February
2022
By showing which forest roads are more used by caribou predators (wolves and bears) and its apparent competitor (moose), our study highlights the importance of considering both road-scale characteristics and the landscape context in which roads are built to prioritize the most detrimental roads to caribou conservation and guide efficient restoration efforts of its habitat.
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A four year study has been carried out to determine the ability of coniferous trees to aid in the reclamation of uranium tailings at Elliot Lake. Five species were planted: white cedar, white spruce...
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Jean-Marie Sobze
Lakshman Galagedara
Mumtaz Cheema
Raymond Thomas
Sahari Inoue
Boreal forests across Canada and other geographic areas globally have vast networks or densities of seismic lines, pipelines, access roads, utility corridors, and multipurpose trails collectively termed “linear disturbances” or “linear features.”
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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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Resource Date:
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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Ève Rioux
Fanie Pelletier
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
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March
2022
Documenting trophic niche partitioning and resource use within a community is critical to evaluate underlying mechanisms of coexistence, competition, or predation. Detailed knowledge about foraging is...
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Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanada Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
This article in Canadian Reclamation (Issue 1, Vol 12, pages 10-13) describes the wellsite clay pad removal and inversion technique applied by the NAIT Centre for Boreal Research in a peatland...
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Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
Jean-Marie Sobze
Amanda Schoonmaker
Line Rochefort
Reclaiming in-situ well pads built in peatland presents many challenges. Our project offers an innovative approach that removes the clay pad and geotextile, fluffs and re-profiles the buried peat...
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Michael Merchant
Alain Richard
Kevin Smith
Rebecca Warren
Rebecca Edwards
Adam Spitzig
Dan Fehringer
This research poster describes the Enhanced Wetland Inventory (EWC) and Boreal Wetland Classification System developed by Ducks Unlimited Canada. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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January
2016
This presentation provides an overview of Manitoba Hydro's planning through to operations approach to wetland mitigation on their rights of ways.
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Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
Jeannine Goehing
Catherine Brown
Thick wood chips on a temporary access road through a peatland provided a unique operational opportunity to test an adaption of the peat inversion process. The thick layer of wood chips prevented...
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Government of Saskatchewan
This document outlines Saskatchewan’s current understanding (as of fall 2023) of woodland caribou populations and habitat conditions in the Boreal Shield (SK1).
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Milo Mihajlovich
Pat Wearmouth
An effective, reliable and relatively inexpensive means to achieve the Alberta 2010 Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities in Forested Lands requirements is to plant seedlings...
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Alberta Lake Management Society
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September
2013
The Alberta Lake Management Society has produced a workbook for groups to use when developing lake watershed management plans in this province.