Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Intercontinental Engineering of Alberta Ltd.
Opportunity for comprehensive planning of orderly industrial development in the Bituminous Sands Area. Plans should be formulated for regional development to provide optimal human habitat
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Intercontinental Engineering of Alberta Ltd.
A collection of technical working papers that helped inform the final report and recommendations
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Dave Ealey
S. Hannon
G.J. Hilchie
Distribution, abundance in the AOSERP study area, food habits, habitat preferences, and foraging behaviour were examined for over 100 arthropod families and 153 vertebrate species
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W.A. Bond
Kazimierz Machniak
Study of the fish fauna in the Muskeg River commenced in 1976 with the general objective of describing the baseline states of this resource in the watershed and providing a quantitative estimate
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Kazimierz Machniak
W.A. Bond
The resident fish fauna of the Steepbank River consists largely of pearl dace, brook stickleback, lake chub, longnose dace and slimy sculpin.
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Seasonal and areal variations in significant water quality parameters in the Muskeg River basin of northeastern Alberta are described
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A fog study was implemented during 1977-1978 to provide more detailed observations of fog occurrences, especially during the winter when the possibility of ice fog exists
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Provide a preliminary understanding of the state of the art of in situ bitumen recovery technology, the most probable application and rate of application of that technology to the Athabasca deposit
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purpose of this project is to determine the population size of moose in the survey area with regard given to sex and age ratios and distribution according to habitat and seasonal climatic features
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Several insect species and groups of insects are examined for their potential as biological indicators in the AOSERP area.
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The epilithic microbial and micro-invertebrate communities under conditions of light and shade were studied from April to November 1978
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
16-24 species of fish were found in each watershed. Forage fish (lake chub, pearl dace, longnose dace, trout-perch, brook stickleback, slimy sculpin) and white and longnose suckers were most abundant
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Aaron Sekerak
Gordon Walder
Maps showing fish collection locations, photos and details of the physical characteristics of nine streams within five watersheds (Firebag, Muskeg, Steepbank, MacKay, and Ells) in AOSERP study area
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Hal Hamilton
Ron Wallace
D. Westlake
Julia Foght
Barry Taylor
Steve Hrudey
Relationship between hydrocarbons present naturally, or introduced due to surface oil sands mining and upgrading activities, and their potential bioaccumulation and tainting of the commercial fishery
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During 1978, a number of aquatic projects were funded by AOSERP using a habitat inventory and mapping approach.
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T.W. Chamberlin
E.A. Harding
Philosophy and structure of aquatic system inventory as conducted by the BC Resource Analysis Branch. Additional topics included data management and examples of detailed interpretive projects
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Goals of this investigation were to describe the present hydrologic and sediment regimes and to predict the consequences of surface disturbances which precede oil sands mining using runoff plots.
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Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, Resource Planning Branch
To alleviate potential adverse effects on the environment from the proliferation of linear facilities, the multiple use corridor concept has been accepted by FLW as a feasible remedy
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Rod Olson
Bruce Thompson
Henry Bertram
Roy Peters
Determine changes in the input rate of atmospheric trace substances into sensitive ecosystems and provide a database for the documentation of variations in chemical characteristics of precipitation
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This report identifies historical, annual and open water, low flow sequences for 13 stations in the Athabasca River Basin which can be used to determine management guidelines for the River basin