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Caribou Habitat Restoration

This webinar examined how restoring seismic lines in Alberta’s caribou habitat supports population recovery by reducing disturbance, limiting predator movement, and rebuilding forest ecosystems.

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Regular Price:
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Course Length:
45 minutes
Career Stage:
All Career Stages
EP PD Credits:
3
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Regular Price:
Free
Course Length:
45 minutes
Career Stage:
All Career Stages

EP PD Credits.

3

Not yet an EP Member?

Click here to learn more!

Watch Now
Speaker: Scott Wilson
M.Sc, EP, Senior Environmental Analyst, Silvacom

Scott Wilson is a Senior Environmental Analyst with Silvacom’s Energy and Environment group. He partakes in the statistical analysis, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and project management of various projects for industrial and governmental clients. After completing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Conservation Sciences at the University of Alberta, Scott went on to complete a master’s degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics, again at the University of Alberta. His thesis focused on understanding risk preferences and the effects of risk aversion and cost variation on behaviour in conservation auctions. Scott has worked on many projects during his time at Silvacom including on-the-ground and desktop monitoring of linear restoration projects to restore caribou habitat. Learnings from early linear restoration projects are currently feeding planning and operations of ongoing and future linear restoration projects at Silvacom.
Speaker: Katie Lamoureux
BScF, RPF, Resource Analyst, Silvacom

Katie Lamoureux is a Resource Analyst and Registered Professional Forester with Silvacom’s Energy and Environment team. Over the last five years, she has been involved in all aspects of linear restoration projects across Alberta. Her experience includes planning, implementation, quality control, field coordination, monitoring, and reporting. Katie has also worked at Silvacom as a Forest Measurements Technician working on a Permanent Sample Program (PSP) and elsewhere as an Intermediate Field Technician completing cutblock layouts and various field measurements. Katie has a BSc in Forestry from the University of Alberta.

Agenda:

  • Introduction

  • (Un)Natural History

  • Linear Restoration as a Tool

  • Linear Restoration in Action

  • Successes and Challenges

  • Wrap-Up and Q&A

Reconnaissance des terres

Dans un esprit de respect, de réciprocité et de vérité, nous honorons et reconnaissons Moh’kinsstis, le territoire traditionnel du Traité 7 et les pratiques orales de la confédération des Pieds-Noirs : Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, ainsi que les nations Îyâxe Nakoda et Tsuut’ina. Nous reconnaissons que ce territoire abrite la Nation métisse de l’Alberta, la région 3 au sein de la patrie historique des Métis du Nord-Ouest. Enfin, nous reconnaissons toutes les nations qui vivent, travaillent et se divertissent sur ce territoire, et qui l’honorent et le célèbrent.

Land Acknowledgment

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.