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Fall 2019

Ishii, Cassio

After the floods in 2013 in Alberta, the effort towards reducing the impact of conventional approaches on the environment and improving the desirable effects of vegetation protecting the water bodies has been an increasing trend in most cities. Soil bioengineering designs with fast-growing plants...

Spring 2021

Goodbrand, Amy R

The Alberta Foothills region has experienced an unprecedented mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak. The provincial management strategy is to contain the infestation with forest harvest. The landscape becomes a patchwork of dead (MPB grey-attack), alive, and harvested stands. MPB attack affects the...

Spring 2022

Fath, Kenneth Jared

Gravel and dirt resource roads in the Alberta foothills are critical economic infrastructure, used to explore for, manage, and extract natural resources from this region. Resource roads are also known to add sediment to nearby streams and rivers, causing habitat stress for fish. Understanding...

Spring 2024

Humeny, Erin C.

Many communities in Canada rely on surface drinking water supplies that are located within or downstream of forests. The typically clean, clear waters flowing from forests are sensitive to disturbances that can degrade source water quality. Unpaved access roads are one of the most widespread...

Fall 2015

Maitland, Bryan M

Growing anthropogenic development in response to rising demands for natural resources is a major concern for freshwater fish, particularly in resource rich regions such as Canada’s boreal forest. Expanding networks of industrial resource roads has led to the installation of hundreds of thousands...

Fall 2023

Hall, Jennifer

Forest harvesting, wildfire suppression, energy resource exploration, and recreation all require unpaved roads. As a result, many roads in drinking watersheds are potential sources of fine (<63 µm) sediment. Erosion of fine sediment threatens drinking water treatability as can be a source of...