Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Landmark Resource Management Ltd.
Boreal caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) are traditionally a highly significant species to ADKFN and the species is currently listed as ‘threatened’ under Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA). As a...
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Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
The Alberta Wetland Classification System (AWCS) incorporates and merges information from existing wetland classification systems to provide a holistic classification system for the province. The AWCS...
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Forest biomass is the second-largest renewable energy resource in Canada, representing a major pool in the global carbon budget, but better estimates of forest biomass are needed. In the 1980s...
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Diane Culling
Deborah Cichowski
This scientific review was prepared for the B.C. Oil and Gas Research Innovation Society (Victoria, B.C.). In 2010, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) completed the Scientific Update for the Boreal...
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Government of Northwest Territories
In 2014, boreal caribou in the NWT were listed as a Threatened species under the NWT Species at Risk Act and a NWT Recovery Strategy was prepared to guide boreal caribou recovery actions. One of the...
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Environmental Impact Review Board
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January
2013
A long 2013 environmental impact assessment report on the construction of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway. The consideration of impacts on caribou, and board recommendations on dealing with these...
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Sylvain Ménard
Marcel Darveau
Louis Imbeau
Forest inventory maps can be used to quantify the area of wetland habitats and to define homogeneous regions in this regard, and therefore provide a functional tool for coarse-scale wetland management
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B.J. Sutherland
F.F. Foreman
This guide will help forest management personnel in northwestern Ontario to select and use mechanical site preparation equipment in order to produce growing conditions suitable for germination and...
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Resource Date:
March
2011
... conducted 20 interviews with holders of Gwich’in traditional knowledge and searched the digital archives of GSCI for relevant primary and secondary data to obtain TK about [woodland caribou].
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"A Guide to Hardwood Planting on Abandoned Farmland in Southern Ontario" was first published in 1979. In the past 10 years, much new knowledge has been gained about species requirements and new...
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NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program
Permafrost thaw in peatlands results in changes to vegetation and soil and can affect water resources. This project examined peatlands in the Dehcho region. It was found that peatlands with increased...
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This report was prepared to facilitate the use of scientific and common names of insects and mites dealt with by the forestry community of Ontario and includes most of the species recorded by the...
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Kristi Benson
Janet Winbourne
Boreal caribou are an important animal for First Nations and Métis communities in almost all regions of the NWT. Hunters and Elders have comprehensive traditional knowledge about past and current...
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J.D. Stewart
T.N. Jones
R.C. Noble
Long-term data from established field experiments are required to properly evaluate different silvicultural options and to provide the basis for development and validation of growth models. Such data...
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Resource Date:
March
2022
In the discontinuous permafrost zone, thermokarst lakes and thermal erosion are widespread and common permafrost thaw-related phenomena. Thermokarst features are indicative of thaw sensitive...
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Resource Date:
December
2016
WSP Golder (formerly Golder Associates Ltd) and Explor were supported by the Research and Effectiveness Monitoring Board (REMB) of the BCIP initiative, with funding provided by the BC Oil and Gas...
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This report provides the details of the construction and application of a set of population and harvest models for boreal caribou in two Wildlife Management Zones and six other areas of interest in...
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Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO)
Two Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) ecotypes occur in Ontario - the forest-dwelling or boreal population, and the forest-tundra or migratory population. In Ontario the “Woodland Caribou, forest-dwelling...
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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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Ontario Environment, Conservation and Parks
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April
2019
The Range Management Policy provides a transparent and evidence-based approach to planning and decision-making in caribou habitat that maintains or improves the condition of caribou ranges in Ontario...