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Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Financial Planning and Reporting: Learning from the Town of Gibsons' Experience
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This summary is part of a series designed to provide local governments with easy-to-access information to help with adoption of municipal natural asset management.
Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Funding Opportunities
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This summary reviews six of Canada’s major infrastructure funding programs through the lens of a manager seeking to fund a municipal natural asset project.
Agreement for the Conservation of the Woodland Caribou, Boreal Population with Cold Lake First Nations.
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SARA SECTION 11 (S11) CONSERVATION AGREEMENT - cold lake first nations (CLfn) Under Section 11 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) can enter...
Biogeochemical Response to Vegetation and Hydrologic Change in an Alaskan Boreal Fen Ecosystem
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
Conservation of Caribou and Caribou Habitat in Dene Ni Nenne (Cold Lake First Nations Traditional Territory)
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Project Description: Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) is working with all levels of government across two provinces, industry, National Defence, and research groups to develop and implement caribou...
Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets
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As the municipal infrastructure asset management process evolves, it will be critical to ensure that all community assets that may provide municipal services—lakes, wetlands, green spaces and trees as well as roads, bridges and buildings—are appropriately identified and managed.
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Municipal Natural Asset Management as a Sustainable Infrastructure Strategy: The Emerging Evidence
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This paper documents an emerging strategy to manage natural assets such as woodlands, wetlands, and creeks in urban areas as part of a sustainable infrastructure strategy.
Peat Loss Collocates with a Threshold in Plant–Mycorrhizal Associations in Drained Peatlands Encroached by Trees
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
Primer on Natural Asset Management for FCM's 2018 Sustainable Communities Conference
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This 4-page primer introduces the concept of municipal natural asset management (MNAM).
The Third Generation of Pan-Canadian Wetland Map at 10 m Resolution Using Multisource Earth Observation Data on Cloud Computing Platform
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Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...
Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands
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This Project Overview document outlines the findings of, and lessons learned by, six local governments as they investigated how natural assets are benefiting their communities.
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...
Webinar - Cold Lake First Nations’ Knowledge Co-creation Process in Lake Monitoring
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Cold Lake First Nation has been working with the Airshed and Watershed Stewardship Branch in the Indigenous Lake Monitoring Program since 2017. The long-term goal of this program is to support shared...