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COSIA In-Situ Oil Sands Shared Practices for Working in and Around Wetlands
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This report compiles a toolbox of shared practices currently in use by COSIA companies, or which have been used but were found to be unsuccessful.
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...
Less Flammable Vegetation for Linear Industry Rights-‐of-‐way
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FPInnovations launched a multi-year study to determine whether a less-flammable, herbaceous species could replace the flammable grasses that typically colonize linear ROWs
Podcast - Shift talks Sacred Science with Alvin First Rider, Brett Purdy, and Emily Herdman
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Alvin First Rider speaks about his nation's use western science alongside Indigenous Knowledge to bring buffalo back to their historical plains.
Resource Roads and Wetlands: A Guide for Planning, Construction, and Maintenance
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This guide contains best management practices that help plan, construct and maintain resource roads in forested environments in order to maintain the movement of water in wetlands.
Resource Roads and Wetlands: Practical Applications to Maintain Hydrologic Connectivity
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This presentation highlights planning and operations applications of water management techniques for resource roads crossing wetlands.
Sacred Science Video Series
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Bringing together Indigenous knowledge and western science creates opportunities for new solutions to environmental challenges, including issues that are important to Indigenous People. The Sacred...
The Biophysical Climate Mitigation Potential of Boreal Peatlands During the Growing Season
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Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour exchange with the...
The Effects of Black Spruce Fuel Management on Surface Fuel Condition and Peat Burn Severity in an Experimental Fire
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Video - Assessing Cumulative Ecological Effects: The Changing Management Landscape
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Jim Schieck discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta.
Video - Assessment of forest attributes using airborne and terrestrial LiDAR
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This presentation discusses the different ways that LiDAR data can be effectively used in forestry management applications.
Video - Blood Tribe Buffalo Restoration Project
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Members of the Káínawa – or Blood Tribe – are applying training in western science, alongside their Indigenous Knowledge, to bring buffalo back to their historical habitat in southern Alberta, the...
Video - Building a Sustainable Alberta Through Deployment of LiDAR Technologies: Reflections from an SRD perspective
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Barry White discusses the ways LiDAR is being used by departments within the government of Alberta.
Video - Caribou Conservation Project
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The Denesųłiné of Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) are applying both their Indigenous Knowledge and expertise in western science to develop and implement diverse caribou conservation strategies in...
Video - Enhanced Fuel Mapping for Wildfire Management
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This presentation discusses ways that LiDAR data can be used in forestry management, including for mapping mountain pine beetle infestations.
Video - Feature Extraction from Multisensor Airborne Data: Monitoring of large-scaled industrial activity on the natural landscape
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This presentation discusses using airborne LiDAR data on monitoring projects with the federal and provincial government. Data collection and data extraction are reviewed.
Video - From Point Cloud to Supporting Decisions: Making use of your LiDAR data
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This presentation discusses how to use LiDAR data, in particular for forestry, but also for other government and industry applications.
Video - High Resolution Inventories Using LiDAR: Challenges and opportunities
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This presentation discuss a pilot project done with Spray Lakes Sawmill FMA related to doing plot inventories using LiDAR.