Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
January
2015
This toolkit has been prepared as an operational handbook and is intended to guide implementation of reclamation techniques that will contribute to the restoration of caribou habitat. It is meant to...
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Authors
Ann Smreciu
Kimberley Gould
Stephanie Wood
Oil sands reclamation guidance documents include lists of potential reclamation species and their characteristics - This report consolidates and updates profiles for 98 of these species
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Authors
Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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Authors
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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This publication discusses the restoration of treed peatlands after disturbances caused by oil and gas activities, particularly in areas where seismic lines have been created. Seismic lines are...
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is an introduction to a 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada...
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Authors
Kelman Wieder
Melanie Vile
Dale Vitt
Kimberli Scott
Bin Xu
James Quinn
Cara Albright
The 140,329 km 2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km 2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased...
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Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about...
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Abstract: White-tailed deer have become increasingly common within caribou range in northern Alberta, and have been linked with an increase in wolf densities. Previous studies have speculated that...
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Authors
Jesse Whittington
Mark Hebblewhite
Nicholas DeCesare
Lalenia Neufeld
Mark Bradley
John Wilmshurst
Marco Musiani
1. Caribou and reindeer Rangifer tarandus are declining across North America and Scandinavia in part from wolf Canis lupus-mediated apparent competition with more abundant ungulate prey species. While...
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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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As caribou habitat restoration initiatives have become more widespread across Alberta in the last decade, key uncertainties have been recognized regarding what treatment types are appropriate for...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
The Cenovus LiDea project tests the idea that active restoration using silviculture may resolve arrested succession and address the basic mechanisms that lead to caribou decline.
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Authors
Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Bin Xu
Workshop summary of discussions to inform a path forward for a policy framework that provided clarity on the process to request a change in land use and the criteria for evaluating the requests.
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Authors
Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Heather Tokay
Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Bin Xu
Factors to consider when assessing the ecological implications of a change in land use request (hydrology, cumulative effects and regional considerations, upland function, status of the borrow pit ...
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Authors
Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Natalie Shelby-James
Bonnie Drozdowski
This 2022 Update is a revision of the original Decision Framework and Support Tools report based on stakeholder feedback and a field verification trial.
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Authors
Chris Powter
Natalie Shelby-James
Bin Xu
Kevin Renkema
Results of a stakeholder review of the draft Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools report and a field verification trial by practitioners.
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Authors
Daniel Peters
Dillon Watt
Kevin Devito
Wendy Monk
Rajesh Shrestha
Donald Baird
The goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of the regional role of the lower Athabasca Basin areas in overall runoff delivery to the downstream Peace-Athabasca Delta. The Cold-regions...
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Authors
Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
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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Authors
Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
O. Volik
Jonathan Price
We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road (perpendicular to flow) in 2003 and a pipeline (obliquely to flow) in 2011. New...