Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Mounding is a highly versatile technique for addressing site conditions that may limit forest recovery on a wide range of reclamation sites. The technique is particularly useful on wet and cool sites...
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Cory Savage
Tanner Owca
Mitchell Kay
Jelle Faber
Brent Wolfe
Roland Hall
Potential for downstream delivery of contaminants via Athabasca River floodwaters to lakes of the PAD has raised local to international concern. Here, we quantify enrichment of eight metals (Be, Cd...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
With few exceptions, permeability across in situ developments was the main factor affecting caribou movement. Relationship was non-linear, suggesting a minimum threshold of permeability is needed
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Salmo Consulting
At current levels of industrial development, pipelines and linear features have a very small negative effect on caribou populations compared to the high levels of predation.
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The cold climate and short growing season characteristic of the major oil and gas producing regions of western Canada make it particularly important to conduct phytoremediation research on plants...
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This is a compilation of on-line accessible papers from the 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989 conferences of the Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association. This list will be updated...
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This report, prepared by Associated Environmental (Associated) on behalf of Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), documents the benefits and limitations of bioengineering and conventional...
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Michael Rowell
Jean Crepin
Salt spills are liable to become more prevalent in the oil producing regions of Alberta as the volume of brine relative to crude oil increases with the depletion of the older oil-fields. High...
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
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February
2022
Study Region A channel fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada Study Focus We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
We collected high-resolution aerial imagery and associated ground-truthed data from four sampling blocks in two caribou ranges to assess human footprint accuracy and state of vegetation recovery.
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Terry Osko
Clayton Gillies
Matthew Pyper
Resource Date:
February
2018
This report compiles a toolbox of shared practices currently in use by COSIA companies, or which have been used but were found to be unsuccessful.
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Alberta Centre for Reclamation and Restoration Ecology
Oil Sands Research and Information Network
One of the core mandates for the Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) was to enhance access to oil sands environmental management information. With OSRIN’s mandate ending December 31...
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Sandra Landsburg
Elizabeth Dwyer
Dissipation of bromacil in Humic Luvic Gleysols amended with cow manure was evaluated at two sites in northwestern Alberta from 1984 to 1987
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Chris Stockdale
Quinn Barber
Amit Saxena
Marc-Andre Parisien
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March
2019
We undertook a wildfire risk assessment across the Cold Lake caribou range where we used the Burn-P3 model to determine: a) burn probability; b) wildfire risk to restored seismic line areas; and c) the effectiveness of mitigation measures. The burn probability of the landscape was highly heterogeneous, and recent large burns and some waterbodies provided “shields” that reduced burn probability on their leeward sides.
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Scott McNay
Stan Boutin
Predation by grey wolves Canis lupus has been identified as an important cause of boreal woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou mortality, and it has been hypothesized that wolf use of human...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Glossary provides understanding of the language and acronyms used in oil sands mining, processing and environmental management.
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Tyler Muhly
Robert Serrouya
Eric Neilson
Haitao Li
Stan Boutin
Predictions demonstrate that maintaining permeability across In-situ oil sands development is more important than spacing between leases or including protected areas.
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Angelo Filicetti
Jesse Tigner
Scott Nielsen
Katherine Wolfenden
Murdoch Taylor
Paula Benthamd
Resource Date:
November
2023
Seismic lines, linear features originating from the oil and gas industry for energy exploration, pose a substantial management challenge due to their collective impact on biogeochemical cycles, plant...
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Objective - develop a collective understanding of the scope of sites impacted by soil sterilants (bromacil and tebuthiuron) and the specific challenges associated with their remediation and management
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Simone Levy
Several major challenges were identified associated with management of sterilant-impacted sites in Alberta through this literature review, industry consultation and personal communication