Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Cladonia subgenus Cladina (the reindeer lichens) can be a dominant part of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. They are particularly abundant in arctic-alpine and boreal regions, where they are a...
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Report focuses on evolution and current state of pertinent federal legislative Acts in the environmental, natural resource, and energy policy sectors that may impact oil sands environmental management
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Ontario Environment, Conservation and Parks
These Best Management Practices ( BMPs) are meant to be used by mineral exploration and development proponents who are planning or conducting early exploration, advanced exploration, mine production...
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Project Description: This project is developing a foundational genomics platform to: enable long-term, non-invasive genomic monitoring of boreal caribou; allow for validated cross-compatibility among...
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Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
In the summer of 2021, PDAC completed their Caribou Management Strategies: Best Practices for the Mineral Industry study, to analyze the impact of exploration and mining activity on caribou...
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Project Description: Due to sharply decreasing populations, boreal woodland caribou are an animal of concern for Canadian and Indigenous peoples. In north-central Saskatchewan, Indigenous and non...
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Resource Date:
April
2017
This document combines as-of-2016 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Wood was awarded a contract in 2008 to undertake baseline wildlife assessments in the study area and develop and conduct a long-term mammals monitoring program (focused on caribou, moose and wolves)...
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Jackie Weir
Shane Mahoney
Brian McLaren
Steven Ferguson
Resource Date:
March
2007
Knowledge of the effect of mining developments on caribou Rangifer tarandus is fragmentary. We examined the impact of the Hope Brook gold mine, southwestern Newfoundland, on the La Poile woodland...
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A 2017 interactive web-based resource that covers the George River and Leaf River caribou herds. The resource has various narratives about the herds, as well as maps that show the range of the caribou...
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Project Description: The programme de suivi des population de caribou au Québec vise le suivi de 12 indicateurs biologiques, regroupés sous 6 thématique / The monitoring program of caribou populations...
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Terry Antoniuk, John Nishi, Rochelle Harding, Lynn McNeil, Karen Manuel
Resource Date:
March
2016
The Caribou Predator Fencing Pilot project (the Pilot) is a tool developed by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (Land EPA) for caribou recovery. The...
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Mariano Feldman
Marc Mazerolle
Louis Imbeau
Nicole Fenton
As resource extraction moves north across the globe, wetland ecosystems in Canada are increasingly degraded because of disturbances associated with anthropic activities, including timber harvesting...
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Resource Date:
September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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This project is a part of the Government of Canada’s initiative for monitoring and assessing regional cumulative effects, a recently added requirement to the new Impact Assessment Act (2019). Among...
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The impacts of mining activity on human-caribou relationships in the Northwest Territories have been a focus of study in both the natural and social sciences for decades. Guided by Łutsel K’e Dene...
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Project Description: Biigtigong Nishnaabeg has developed a (draft) caribou Stewardship Plan for its traditional territory, which includes a portion of the Lake Superior Caribou Range and the...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Survey demonstrated need to better communicate availability of existing information and continue to make efforts to provide easy, timely and transparent access to monitoring and research information
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The Boreal Caribou Ecological Model Developed by the Habitat Restoration Working Group (HRWG) of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC). Habitat restoration is expected to play a key...
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Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.