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2023 ANPC Workshop – “How Plants Inspire Us”
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Event Date and Time
April 22nd, 2023 at 9:00am MST to April 22nd, 2023 at 5:00pm MST
, AB
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We are excited to announce the upcoming 35th Alberta Native Plant Council Hybrid Workshop will be held on Saturday, April 22, 2023. This year we will be hosting an in-person workshop at the Cattail...
Alberta Reclamation Practitioner Survey
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At the 2023 Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association annual conference, Chris Powter, Tanya Richens, Andy Etmanski, Amanda Schoonmaker, and Dean MacKenzie participated in a panel...
ANPC Webinar - Forging Unexpected Alliances to Save Native Plants
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Event Date and Time
April 17th, 2024 at 12:00pm MST to April 17th, 2024 at 1:00pm MST
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Native plant advocate Blake McNeill shares some of the innovative salvage projects the group has undertaken to rescue native flowers and grasses from roadways and development sites prior to demolition...
Botany Alberta: Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park
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Event Date and Time
June 21st, 2024 at 12:00am MST to June 23rd, 2024 at 12:00pm MST
Slave Lake, AB
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Botany Alberta will be held Friday June 21st to Sunday June 23rd, 2024 at Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park near Slave Lake, Alberta. Email botanyab@anpc.ab.ca to register. The event will include: An...
Bryophytes in Peatland Restoration - Alberta Native Plant Council Plant Study Group Webinar Series
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Although we will not be able to meet in person this fall and winter for Plant Study Groups, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online Webinar Series. The webinars will run biweekly...
Certification of Mineral Soil Pads in the Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools: 2023 Update
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This 2022 Update is a revision of the original Decision Framework and Support Tools report based on stakeholder feedback and a field verification trial.
Certification Of Mineral Soil Pads in The Boreal Region – Decision Framework and Support Tools: Stakeholder Review and Field Verification
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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.
Defining Best Management Practices for Conservation of Reclamation Materials in the Mineable Oil Sands Region of Alberta
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Task-group formed to define Best Management Practices (BMPs) for conservation of reclamation materials in the mineable oil sands region of Alberta; easier to define BMPs for salvage than replacement
Factors that Result in Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development on Padded Sites in Peatlands: Pilot Study
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The pilot study validated the research questions, sampling design, measurement and data analysis methods developed for a large‐scale study, with some minor amendments.
Guide to Variance Justifications for Reclamation Certification of Wellsites and Associated Facilities: Stakeholder Review and Field Verification
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Practitioners tested the Guide to Variance Justifications on four of those sites; three had been previously approved and one had been submitted and was pending a decision.
Identification and Characterization of Abandoned Padded Wellsites Using Remote Sensing
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In 2018, the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC) initiated a multi-stage project on the reclamation certification process for sites that were constructed using imported mineral soil pads in...
Increasing Contributions of Peatlands to Boreal Evapotranspiration in a Warming Climate
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The response of evapotranspiration (ET) to warming is of critical importance to the water and carbon cycle of the boreal biome, a mosaic of land cover types dominated by forests and peatlands. The...
List of Plants that Occur in Wetlands - History and Current Use in Alberta
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Event Date and Time
February 8th, 2022 at 12:00pm MST to February 8th, 2022 at 1:00pm MST
Organization
The National List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands has been in use since the 80's and has evolved in many ways. Lists originally generated for use in the United States have been adapted for use...
Northern Native Plants and Ecosystems Workshop
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Event Date and Time
March 20th, 2021 at 9:00am MST to March 20th, 2021 at 4:30pm MST
ONLINE,
Organization
The Alberta Native Plant Council’s 2021 virtual spring workshop, Northern Native Plants and Ecosystems, will be held on Saturday March 20, 2021. We will feature presentations from 8 panelists on...
Preparing Variance Justifications for Reclamation Certification of Wellsites and Associated Facilities on Forested Land: 2023 Update
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In 2021, PTAC sought verification of the Guide to Preparing Variance Justifications and stakeholders were asked to apply the document to current sites in their work portfolio.
PTAC Evaluation of Reclamation Practices on Forested Upland and Peatland Well Sites
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In general, regulators expect that disturbed sites in the boreal forest will undergo complete reclamation (recontouring, soil replacement and revegetation) with the goal of returning the site to pre...
Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands
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High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
REGISTER: Northern Native Plants and Ecosystems Workshop
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Event Date and Time
March 20th, 2021 at 9:00am to March 20th, 2021 at 4:30pm
ONLINE,
Organization
The Alberta Native Plant Council’s 2021 virtual spring workshop, Northern Native Plants and Ecosystems, will be held virtually on Saturday March 20, 2021. Feature presentations from 8 panelists on...
Revegetation of Post-mined Land Using Directly Planted Native and Local Shrub Species
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Hand collecting vegetative propagules from surrounding pre-mined land and directly planting these propagules on post-mined land may be the only method to successfully establish key shrub species