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Guidebook Release: The Alberta Wetland Classification System Field Guide

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With funding and support from Alberta Innovates’ Water Innovation Program, Alberta North American Waterfowl Management Plan Partnership and Prairie Habitat Joint Venture, Ducks Unlimited Canada have released a new wetland identification and classification field guide in alignment with the Alberta Wetland Classification System (2015). 

The Alberta Wetland Classification System Field Guide is intended for anyone interested in identifying and classifying wetlands in Alberta, from industry and government practitioners to landowners, Indigenous communities and more. With over 250 images and illustrations of wetlands and common wetland plant species, users will be able to approach wetland classification with ease. 

Learn more and download your free copy of the guide or purchase a hard copy here

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Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan applauded by conservationists for protecting critical caribou habitat

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The Nunavut Planning Commission recently released a draft of a land-use plan for the territory which designates caribou calving grounds as protected year-round from industrial activity. 

Location of the calving grounds on Baffin Island was identified using Inuit traditional Knowledge and a study from the Qikiqtaaluk Wildlife Board. 

Full article*: Conservationists cheer latest proposal to protect land in Nunavut | Nunatsiaq News

The 2021 Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan can be found here. Comments on the plan can be submitted in writing to the Nunavut Planning Commission by September 30, 2021. 

 

*This article is being shared by the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium as the subject matter discussed pertains to caribou and may be of interest to our audience. 

 

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