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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the Capacity Grant Application Form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested in...
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This guide assists applicants with their submissions to the 2 Billion Trees program, specifically the 2BT Tree Planting Application form. It provides guidance on the information that will be requested...
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Joanne White
Michael Wulder
Andrés Varhola
Mikko Vastaranta
Nicholas Coops
Bruce Cook
Doug Pitt
Murray Woods
A best practice guide brings together state-of-the-art approaches, methods, and data to provide non-experts more detailed information about complex topics. With this guide, our goal is to inform and...
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Many after-uses of aggregate extraction land do exist: forestry, agriculture, recreation, nature reserves, housing and waste disposal sites. Attempts at reclaiming this land for alternate uses has...
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K.L. Webster
P.W. Hazlett
S.D. Yanni
S.A. Nelson
B.K. Webber
K.H.Y. Chan
F. Norouzian
S.V. Phippen
The Turkey Lakes Watershed (TLW) study is a federal, interdepartmental study established in 1979 to investigate the effects of acid rain on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The 10.5 km2 watershed...
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This document outlines an approach to range planning for boreal woodland caribou (hereafter “boreal caribou”) in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It provides a common framework for how individual...
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Government of Northwest Territories
The Framework for Boreal Caribou Range Planning: Discussion Document is the appendices discussion to the Framework for Boreal Caribou Range Planning in Northwest Territories. It discusses: Population...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
A 39-page academic paper from 2016 designed to help assess the impact of hunting on barren-ground caribou herds, based on the population size and trend of a given herd.
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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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Seeding is less reliable than planting, and natural regeneration even less so, but these regeneration methods may be suitable, low-cost alternatives on some reclaimed sites. both seeding and natural...
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A common goal of reclamation in the boreal forest is to establish diverse, native plant communities that are suited to the site's conditions and are on track to become a forest. Regeneration planning...
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Reclaiming industrial sites in Alberta's boreal forest is not always a straightforward process. The footprints left by infrastructure and equipment are often characterized by compacted mineral soils...
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Soil compaction frequently results from industrial disturbance on mineral soils, whether due to infrastructure or equipment traffic. Soil compaction tends to be most severe on sites with high clay...
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Soil salvage is a pre-disturbance technique to conserve a site's topsoil, which is critical for maintaining nutrient cycling, organic matter, soil biota and plant propagules. In some cases, subsoil...
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Authors
K. Chapman
K.A. Baldwin
S. Basquill
M. Major
W.J. Meades
C. Morneau
J.-P. Saucier
P.W.C. Uhlig
M.C. Wester
Upland boreal forest communities (Associations) of Eastern Canada are classified within Macrogroup M495 [Eastern North American Boreal Forest] of the Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC)...
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Craig DeMars
John Boulanger
Robert Serrouya
Effective wildlife management requires monitoring changes in the spatial distribution of species, their population size and their population trend (Williams et al. 2002; Sinclair et al. 2006)...
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December
2021
The most widely reported threat to populations of boreal and mountain woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) involves what has come to be known as disturbance-mediated apparent competition...
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Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board
This 1994 report from the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board discusses fire management issues on the forested part of the herds’ ranges. This resource and others can be found on the...
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Authors
Heather MacDonald
Dan McKenney
Kristine Confalone
Kelly Mitchell
This paper summarizes the results of a survey of 99 municipal/regional governments, academia, and private organizations about weather stations. The survey, developed by the Great Lakes Forestry Centre...
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Authors
C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...