Technical Notes
Forest Reclamation and Boreal Reforestation
- Technical Note #1. Making Sites Rough and Loose (PDF, 2013)
- Technical Note #2. Soil Bio-engineering for Site Restoration (PDF, 2013)
- Technical Note #3. Tilling Compacted Soils with RipPlows (PDF, 2012)
- Technical Note #4. Tilling Frozen Soils with RipPlows & Environmental Risk Assessment (PDF, 2012)
- Technical Note #5. Site Clearing & Soil Handling for Reclamation of Conventional Wellsites (PDF, 2012)
- Technical Note #6. Woody Vegetation (Trees) Establishment on Upland Sites (PDF, 2012)
- Technical Note #7. Principles of Vegetation Management (PDF, 2011)
- Technical Note #8. Vegetation Management Treatments (PDF, 2011)
- Technical Note #9. Operational Vegetation Management (PDF, 2011)
- Technical Note #10. Special Considerations in Herbicide Use (PDF, 2011)
- Technical Note #11. Reclamation and Restoration Plan Development (PDF, 2011)
- Technical Note #25. Handling of Poplar and Willow Cuttings Part 1 (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #26. Handling of Poplar and Willow Cuttings Part 2 (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #28. Hitchhiker Planting in Reclamation: Protocols for Developing Nursery Stock of Woody and Herbaceous Species (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #31. Competition Considerations When Using Soil Strippings for Reclamation of Industrial Disturbances (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #33. Site Preparation: Application of Rough and Loose Mounding and Furrowing (RipPlow) on a Wood Mulched Site (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #38. Soil Site Preparation Options for Enhancing Woody Seedling Establishment Part 1: Mechanical Tools (PDF, 2020)
- Technical Note #39. Soil Site Preparation Options for Enhancing Woody Seedling Establishment Part 2: Soil Amendments (PDF, 2020)
Peatland Restoration
Plant and Seed Technologies
- Technical Note #14. Harvesting and Cleaning Fleshy Shrub Seed for Reclamation (PDF, 2014)
- Technical Note #15. Seed Collection, Processing and Storage (PDF, 2012)
- Technical Note #22. Seed Collection and Extraction of Fireweed, Showy Aster and Canada Goldenrod (PDF, 2016)
- Technical Note #27. Native Boreal Seed Enhancement: Seed Pelleting (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #29. Greenhouse Propagation of Endemic North American Reed Grass (Phragmites australis americanus) (PDF, 2019)
- Technical Note #34. Populus tremuloides: Species Identification & Seed Collection and Processing (PDF, 2020)
- Technical Note #35. Populus balsamifera: Species Identification & Seed Collection and Processing (PDF, 2020)
- Technical Note #36. Shepherdia canadensis: Species Identification & Seed Collection and Processing (PDF, 2020)
Archived Notes
Regulatory Context
Ecological Framework
Citations:
Author's surnames and initials. (Year of publication). Title of technical note. Technical note number, publisher, number of pages, place of publication. Available from [URL].
Example:
Bird, M., Xu, B., Sobze, J-M., Schoonmaker, A., and Rochefort, L. (2017). Wellsite Clay Pad Removal and Peat Inversion. Technical Note #24, NAIT Centre for Boreal Research, Peace River, AB, Pages 1-6. Available from https://publicdocs.nait.ca/sites/pd/_layouts/15/DocIdRedir.aspx?ID=4NUSZQ57DJN7-208515216-6550.