Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Daphne Cheel
Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Don Thacker
Terry Macyk
Report synthesizes and summarizes 36 RRTAC reports to provide the user with a unified source of information on land and groundwater reclamation research in the plains of Alberta
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Significant factors relating to effects on physical and chemical characteristics of the northern Alberta environment as a result of potential oil sands development in the Athabasca tar sands were docu
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
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Reconstructed soils representing different materials handling and replacement techniques were characterized and variability in chemical and physical properties was assessed
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Environmental Impact Review Board
Resource Date:
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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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
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John Senyk
Don Craigdaillie
A wet weather ground-based yarding operation was studied to determine the impacts of skidders equipped with low ground pressure and conventional tires on soil physical and chemical properties and...
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Six hundred Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and 600 lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) seedlings were planted on seven plots in a cutover north of Golden, British Columbia, to...
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Ellen Macdonald
Richard Rothwell
The impacts of different methods of mechanical site preparation (MSP) treatments on foliar nutrients of planted plug+ 1 white spruce seedlings were examined at two mixed-wood boreal forest sites (Judy...
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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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Studies to determine levels and impacts of soil disturbance caused during root-disease control by stump removal were initiated on a cutover on southern Vancouver Island immediately prior to the...
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Larry Turchenek
Wayne Tedder
R. Krzanowski
Methodology for cost-effective soil survey and sampling of cutover peatlands, and obtaining baseline chemical information and data interpretation for peat materials to examine reclamation alternatives
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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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Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
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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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Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Terry Macyk
Daphne Cheel
The first phase of the study, which was completed in 1984, included characterization and instrumentation of two study areas: the Battle River study area, which included Diplomat, Vesta and Paintearth...
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Craig Aumann
Chris Powter
Report of a seminar to develop a collective understanding of the benefits and opportunities of Predictive Soil Mapping as they relate to Alberta
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Diesel invert wastes are one of the more difficult types of drilling mud wastes to dispose of due to the presence of hydrocarbons and salts. In 1989 a joint research program funded by the Alberta...
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Anne Naeth
Donna White
David Chanasyk
Terry Macyk
Chris Powter
Don Thacker
To provide coordinated direction for reclamation research in Alberta, the need to review the current understanding and the role of soil physical properties in soil disturbance related activities was...
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Pedocan Land Evaluation Ltd.
Part 1 of this manual is a background and explanatory section that describes the terminology used in soil surveys and presents the assumptions and conventions upon which the interpretations are based