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Global Guidelines for Peatland Rewetting and Restoration
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The Convention on Wetlands (The Convention) and other national, regional and global policy frameworks promote the restoration of degraded peatlands. Rewetting peatland to reduce greenhouse gas...
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...
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.
Practical Peatland Restoration
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This Briefing Note presents key information on practical peatland rewetting and restoration on site. It formulates general guiding principles applicable to all peatland restoration practices and...
Restoring Drained Peatlands: A Necessary Step to Achieve Global Climate Goals
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Peatlands cover about 400 million hectares (ha), or 3% of the land surface of our planet. Yet they store more carbon, more effectively and for longer periods, than any other ecosystem on land. Intact...
Revealing the Hidden Carbon in Forested Wetland Soils
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Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...
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...
Using Perceptions as Evidence to Improve Conservation and Environmental Management
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The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move toward adaptive...
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.