Executive summary of a workshop on the impacts of land clearing on the hydrologic and aquatic resources of boreal forests in Alberta, November 18 and 19, 1994 / prepared for the Northern River Basins Study...: R71-49/3-63E-PDF

"The Northern River Basins Study (NRBS) workshop on the impacts of large scale land clearing on the hydrologic and aquatic resources of the Northern River Basins was held November 18 and 19, 1994 in Edmonton, Alberta. Court reporters generated a transcript of over 548 pages, from which this executive summary was derived. This summary includes precis of expert presentations on the following topics: the history of land-use policies in Alberta, the hydrologic impacts of forest land clearing, forest impacts and the extent of harvesting in Northern Alberta, hydrologic impacts of agricultural production, impacts of land clearing activities on water quality, approaches to management at the watershed scale, food chains and large scale land clearing, and social and human issues associated with large scale land clearing and development of boreal ecosystems"--Report summary.

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