Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
Tania Garcia Bravo
Line Rochefort
Maria Strack
Resource Date:
January
2018
This study determined the effect of a 7-year-old black spruce (Picea mariana) plantation on the carbon balance of a cutover peatland.
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Laureen Echiverri
Ellen Macdonald
Resource Date:
September
2019
For the purpose of informing biodiversity conservation efforts in managed landscapes, we explored whether and how understory plant communities (abundance, diversity, composition) were related to a...
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This talk summarizes the progression of water law and water rights policy in Western Canada and provides some possible solutions for current and emerging challenges.
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This 2016 talk provides an overview of some of the issues related to groundwater in Alberta.
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Dr. Barry White reviews the progress made with LiDAR and wet area mapping in Alberta.
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Uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin region in Northern Saskatchewan was developed in the early 1950s. The mines developed during this period were abandoned, leaving deep holes and mining debris...
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Authors
Dianne Allen
Mark Calette
In 1960, the Lorado Mill was abandoned in northern Saskatchewan, leaving an estimated 227,000 cubic meters of radioactive uranium tailings that covered the mill site and flowed into nearby Nero Lake...
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This presentation discusses conservation offsets such as wetland replacement. It is a tool to address multiple demands on land, air and watersheds.
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Authors
Alexey Klyashtorin
Tamara Yankovich
The Gunnar Mine site is part of a cleanup project, Project CLEANS (Cleanup of Abandoned Northern Sites), managed by the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC). Significant progress was made at Gunnar...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (formerly NAIT Boreal Research Institute) is developing cost effective methods to restore the ecological functions of the decommissioned wellsites with the surrounding...
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Resource Date:
April
2017
This presentation discusses the work of Alberta Environment and Parks on the water management framework in the industrial heartland and the capital region.
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At the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference, Thorsten Hebben from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development presented on the effects that drugs, personal care products and plasticizers have on wastewater in Alberta.
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Dr.Rick Bonar describes how riparian mapping is used to define riparian ecological areas and the management strategy for those areas.
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This presentation discusses the prairie hydrological cycle and explains the influence of temperature, soil composition and significant evapotranspiration.
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Resource Date:
February
2017
This presentation discusses explains how climate change and land use changes impact water supply and how we can adapt.
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At the April 2012 conference for the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, David Trew - Executive Director of the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA) - delivered a presentation about the process of developing an integrated watershed management plan.
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Resource Date:
March
2017
This presentation provides an introduction to the Peatland Restoration program at the NAIT Boreal Research Institute and the program's current research.
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The February 2020 Wetland Best Management Practice Knowledge Exchange webinar. Dr. Cherie Westbrook with the University of Saskatchewan discussed the role and importance of beavers as ecosystem...
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This ongoing project characterized changes and early responses in biodiversity and environmental conditions along seismic lines in relation to the adjacent forest.
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Resource Date:
April
2018
This presentation provides an introduction to the Boreal Water Futures program.