University of Alberta research offers new guidance that can help recover habitat for woodland caribou in forests across the ...

Alberta covers a massive area with diversity that may surprise anyone unfamiliar with the province’s unique geography.

Alberta Wildfire says dry and windy conditions across the province has prompted the agency to issue additional fire ...

A northern hawk owl sighting in Okotoks has generated a great deal of interest among those in the birding community. Northern ...

The boreal forest is the largest forest system on earth ... assaulted by deforestation and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which produces 58 percent of Canada’s oil ...

Day hikes take visitors through boreal forests of spruce ... take Mackenzie Hwy. from northern Alberta. Connect to Hwy. 5, an all-weather road of partly hardpacked gravel that starts near Hay ...

director of the Pew Boreal Campaign, which aims to protect 50 percent of the forest. McEachern, who works for Alberta Environment, a provincial agency, says the tailings ponds are his top concern.

1999. Competing realities: the boreal forest at risk. Ottawa: Government of Canada. Sullivan, M.G. 2003. Active management of walleye fisheries in Alberta: dilemmas of managing recovering fisheries.

After the destructive wildfire in Jasper, Alberta in 2024 ... they do also play a beneficial role in maintaining boreal forest ecosystems. Heat is needed to release the seeds trapped within ...

The results indicate that global boreal forests might change to a more open type, with trees covering about 30%–50% of the area. "This is very different from what we see now, which includes both ...

1998. Thesis title: Effects of residual tree retention on breeding songbirds in Alberta's boreal mixed-wood forest. B.A. (Biology), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. 1995. I have several general ...