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Case Study – Greening Cities
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Trees are an integral and valuable pa rt of t he urban environment. They provide a visual softening to the harsh lines of urban development and make cities livable by improving the quality of life...
Challenges in Co-operative Reclamation Research
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There may be different interpretations of cooperative reclamation research, so it is appropriate to explain how the term will be used in subsequent discussions. The basic concept is to broaden the...
Coal Mine Spoils and Their Revegetation Patterns in Central Alberta
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The study involved an examination of the vegetation and spoils on five mine locations in the central Parkland of Alberta. These five locations represented different spoil types, and methods of mining...
Coal Mining in the Green Area
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In regard to reclamation, the predisturbance inventories carried out as a function of the EIA or D&R Approval, dictate to a large extent the vegetation cover or land uses that will be established. As...
Combined Overburden Revegetation and Wastewater Disposal in the Southern Alberta Foothills
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The construction of a wastewater evaporation lagoon at the Quirk Creek Gas Plant a number of years ago resulted in the creation of a six acre area of overburden consisting of heavy clay, gravel and...
Creating a Recreational Lake at TransAlta's Whitewood Mine
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This paper describes the co-operative participation of the Alberta Government Departments of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife; Recreation and Parks; Environment; the County of Parkland and TransAlta...
Defining Disturbance and Recovery: The Influence of Landscape Specific Ecological Responses to Oil and Gas Linear Disturbances in North Yukon
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Across northern Canada evidence of oil and gas seismic exploration remains from the 1950's to current day. While many of these linear features are still visible, others can no longer be seen. Research...
Design and Performance Enhancement of Mine Drainage Settling Ponds in Alberta
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There has been increasing concern in recent years regarding the environmental impact of sediment laden runoffs discharged from land disturbing activities in Alberta. Settling ponds represent the most...
Development and Application of Soil Quality Criteria for Alberta's Resource Extraction Industries
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Soil quality criteria for Alberta's resource extraction industries were prepared by the Soil Quality Criteria Subcommittee of the Alberta Soils Advisory Committee. The document produced was intended...
Development of Soil Quality Criteria for Contaminated Site Remediation
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There can be little argument that contaminants are now a ubiquitous presence in our environment. Though large-scale efforts to deal with contaminant issues have traditionally focused on water and air...
Disposal of Drilling Wastes in the Mountains
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The foothills and mountain regions are extremely varied in soils, vegetation, climate and geology. Oil and gas drilling wastes must be contained ana then dispose □ of, despite of this extreme...
Do Highway Rights-of-way Have to be Dull?
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Highway rights-of-way in Alberta, and elsewhere, are dull because they consist of limited, non-native species mixes that are frequently mowed. These rights-of-way are therefore not much more exciting...
Ecotypic Variation in the Reproductive Response of Poa alpina
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In 1983 the Alberta Environmental Centre (AEC) at Vegreville began a program to develop licensed, commercially available seed varieties suitable for use in the reclamation of rangeland and man-made...
Elk Winter Food Habits and Forage Quality Along the Eastern Slopes of Alberta (A Review)
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A review of the limited number of studies on elk winter food habits along the Eastern Slopes of Alberta shows that elk prefer grasses and grasslike plants over shrubs. When available, rough fescue (...
Emerging Issues – Land Degradation
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Problems associated with soil degradation have, in some parts of Canada, reached crisis proportions. Combatting these problems is a complex task involving the consideration of social, economic, and...
Environmenta1 Planning for Rights-of-way
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A recent study (using a 10% stratified random sample) estimated the amount of area physically disturbed by energy related activity, to be 66,576 acres (26,963 ha) for a selective study area...
Environmental Fate and Transport of Organic Contaminants in Soils at Waste Disposal Sites
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Current approaches for describing the environmental dynamics of organic constituents in complex waste mixtures are reviewed. Factors controlling equilibrium and nonequilibrium sorption of organic...
Erosion Monitoring on Mountain Foothills Waste Dumps
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The erosion study was designed to examine the effects of the regraded configuration (i.e. slope angle, slope length), waste material characteristics, age since reclamation, amount of precipitation...
Establishment of Native Boreal Plant Species on Reclaimed Oil Sands Mining Disturbances
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Current revegetation strategies for disturbed oil sands sites include values such as biodiversity and sustainability. As a result, a wide range of species are sought for inclusion in revegetation...