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)
• Technical Note #40. Timing of Planting: What Are Our Options? (PDF, 2021)
• Technical Note #41. Effectively Introducing Native Herbaceous Species Into Newly Reclaimed Upland Sites (PDF, 2021)

Peatland Restoration

• Technical Note #12. Peatland Wellsite Re-vegetation (PDF, 2013) 
• Technical Note #13. Harvest and Transfer of Donor Material for Peatland Re-vegetation (PDF, 2012)
• Technical Note #23. Wood Chip Overburden Reclamation in Peatland (PDF, 2017)
• Technical Note #24. Wellsite Clay Pad Removal and Peat Inversion (PDF, 2017)
• Technical Note #30. Hummock Transfer Technique (HTT) for Reclamation of Temporary Access Features in Peatland. (PDF, 2019)
• Technical Note #37. Peatland Restoration by Burying: An Effective Option (PDF, 2020)

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

• Technical Note #17. Directives, Guidelines and Criteria Related to the Wellsite Life Cycle (PDF)
• Technical Note #18. Pre-Disturbance Assessment (PDF, 2012)
• Technical Note #19. Progressive Reclamation (PDF)

Ecological Framework

• Technical Note #20. Site Disturbance: Effect on Vegetation Establishment and Succession (PDF, 2012) 
• Technical Note #21. Target Plant Communities and Conditions (PDF, 2012)

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.