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BioBlitz at the Wetland Center 2023
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Event Date and Time
June 19th, 2023 at 8:00am MST to June 25th, 2023 at 8:00pm MST
Grande Prairie, AB
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We’re having a Bioblitz! Come out to the Wetland Centre from June 19th to 25th, take photos and upload them to the iNaturalist app to identify and catalogue wetland species. Don’t have the iNaturalist...
BioBlitz at the Wetland Centre
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Event Date and Time
July 22nd, 2021 at 12:00am MST to July 25th, 2021 at 11:59pm MST
Grande Prairie, AB
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Become a citizen scientist at the Wetland Centre at Evergreen park! How? By joining the summer 2021 bioblitz event! A bioblitz is a communal citizen-science effort to record as many species within a...
Biodiversity Outcomes of Land Management Choices in Alberta’s Agricultural Lands
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This proof of concept assessment helps understand better market opportunities associated with biodiversity management in Alberta’s agricultural lands. Land management can increase biodiversity.
Blog: A New Approach to Habitat Recovery Could Help Threatened Woodland Caribou
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From a caribou’s perspective, seismic lines might be considered effectively ‘restored’—that is, the additional risk associated with them might be considered negligible—once vegetation reaches 50 cm
Blog: A New Wetland Inventory for Alberta
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We’re pleased to announce the release of the ABMI Alberta-wide Wetland Inventory—our most up-to-date and high-resolution wetland data yet.
Blog: ABMI Releases Preliminary Report on the Status of Human Footprint in Alberta
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From1999 to 2015, human activity in Alberta visibly converted over 23,000 km2 of native ecosystems into residential, recreational, or industrial landscapes
Blog: Canadian Scientists Collaborate to Map Biodiversity and the Human Footprint
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With the support of Alberta Environment and Parks, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has become the trusted source for data about habitat, species, and the human footprint.
Blog: Caribou Habitat Loss Continues in Alberta and BC
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Habitat loss occurred in nearly 70% of caribou ranges in AB and BC, and on average they lost more than twice as much habitat as they gained over the period for which data were available
Blog: Exploring the Effects of Landscape and Climate Change on White-tailed Deer - and What They Might Mean for Caribou
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These results suggest that restoring caribou habitat to nearly unaltered conditions may help to slow white-tail expansion, reduce predator densities, and, by extension, ,lower predation on caribou.
Blog: How do you Help Save Endangered Caribou? Stop the Invading Moose!
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In area with increased moose hunting, moose populations dropped by a surprising 70% and caribou survival rates increased by more than 10% - enough that the caribou population stabilized
Blog: Life in the Fast Lane: Wolves, Caribou, and Human Development
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Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
Blog: New Collaborative Research in the Race to Save Woodland Caribou
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Woodland caribou populations in Alberta and BC are declining, and many will be lost without fast management action. To stem the decline in local population loss, intensively applying a cocktail of...
Blog: We Have a Reclamation Certificate, But is it Good Enough?
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In summer 2013 field crews spent five weeks sampling soil and vegetation indicators at 18 wellsites and adjacent reference sites in the Dry Mixedgrass subregion of Alberta
Boreal Wetland Factsheets
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These fact sheets highlight plant, soil, and water indicators and key ecological benefits of each of the five major wetlands types.
Boreal Wetlands and Waterfowl: A Commitment to Stewardship Activities in Manitoba
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Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) initiated the Western Boreal Program in 1997 with an understanding that working with forward thinking forest industry partners was key to advancing wetland conservation in...
Boreal Wetlands of Canada and the United States of America
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The Canadian and Alaskan boreal zone is one of the most water rich areas in the world, and contains an estimated combined surface water and peatland area the size of Indonesia (∼1.94 million km2)...
Building Better Crossings: Incorporating Wetland Knowledge into Road Planning and Construction
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This research poster gives an overview of the relationship between roads and wetland flow, discusses tips and tools for planning and outlines a case study of developed crossings. Presented at the NAIT...
Burrowing Owl Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Alberta
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This report is intended to provide some adaptation strategies that are focused on management of Burrowing Owls in the face of a changing climate.
Canadian Fieldwork Applications
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Did you know that you can learn to identify and report invasive species, measure trees, and become a citizen scientist all at the touch of your smartphone? Check out this list of free, Canadian field...