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2020-01-08
Wen-Qing Zhang, Killian Fleurial, Ira Sherr, Robert Vassov, Janusz J. Zwiazek
Bitumen recovery from oil sands in northeastern Alberta, Canada produces large volumes of tailings, which are deposited in mining areas that must be reclaimed upon mine closure. A new technology of non-segregated tailings (NST) developed by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) was designed...
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2013
Gardner Costa, J.M., Daly, c., Kovalenko, K.E., Dixon, D.G., Ciborowski, J.J.H., Slama, C.A., Kennedy, K., Foote, A.L., Liber, K., Smits, J.E.G., Frederick, K.R., Roy, M.C., Farwell, A.J.
Boreal wetlands play an important role in global carbon balance. However, their ecosystem function is threatened by direct anthropogenic disturbance and climate change. Oil sands surface mining in the boreal regions of Western Canada denudes tracts of land of organic materials, leaves large areas...
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2013-06-20
Naeth, M.A., Wilkinson, S.R., Powter, C.B., Archibald, H.A., Mackenzie, D.D.
LFH salvaged with small amounts of upper horizon mineral soil for land reclamation (hereafter LFH mineral soil mix) has proven to be an important source of seeds and vegetative propagules for forest plant communities. Until recently in Canada, LFH mineral soil mix was not selectively salvaged...
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2013-02-15
In a short period of time, the conversation around handling woody materials – deadwood such as logs, branches and stumps – has shifted dramatically. From piling and burning, to mulching and now towards keeping ‘whole logs’ on sites. The changes have led to confusion and this guide is intended to...
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2013
Naeth, M.A., Cohen-Fernandez, A.C.
Environmental sustainability of post mined limestone quarries often requires reclamation to a diverse woody plant community. Woody species diversity may be severely limited if only nursery stock is relied on for propagation material; thus other sources must be evaluated. To address woody species...
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2013-02-13
Vinge, T., Powter, C.B., Pyper, M.P.
Ecological resilience, first defined by Holling in 1973, can be broadly described as the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly, but other authors have provided variations on this theme since 1973. Ecological resilience is...
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2012
Luckert, Martin K., Armstrong, Glen W., Adamowicz, Wiktor L., Anderson, Jay A.
Previous studies suggest that management intensity zoning systems, such as the triad approach, could allow Canada’s forest industry to maintain or increase timber harvest levels while simultaneously reducing its environmental impact. In most such studies, the zones are exogenously specified. In...
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2012
For much of the history of Alberta’s tar sands, a series of visual conventions have shaped Canadian imaginaries of the resource, the emergence of the non-conventional oil industry, and the mining of oil. We introduce a series of archival images dating from 1880 until the opening of Great Canadian...