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Managing disease risk in northern Alberta wood bison - outside of Wood Buffalo National Park : progress report

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These annual reports highlight progress on activities related to Managing disease risk in Northern Alberta wood bison. This includes updates on the three broad components; Hay-Zama wild bison herd... More ≫

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These annual reports highlight progress on activities related to Managing disease risk in Northern Alberta wood bison. This includes updates on the three broad components; Hay-Zama wild bison herd management; disease surveillance and risk reduction east of highway 35; and monitoring populations of wild bison east of highway 35 and in the Ronald Lake area.

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Managing disease risk in Alberta's wood bison with special focus on bison to the west of Wood Buffalo National park

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This document has been prepared to outline Alberta’s approach for managing the disease risk to both domestic livestock and free-ranging wood bison until such time as a long term solution can be... More ≫

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This document has been prepared to outline Alberta’s approach for managing the disease risk to both domestic livestock and free-ranging wood bison until such time as a long term solution can be applied to the disease reservoir associated with Wood Buffalo National Park. This approach is focused on the area to the west of the park, as the Wentzel or Wabasca-Mikkwa bison pose a greater threat to transferring diseases to either domestic livestock or the wild Hay-Zama bison herd than do the Ronald Lake bison herd to the south of the park.

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Status of the whooping crane (Grus americana) in Alberta

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This wildlife status report looks at the whooping crane, North America's tallest bird. Whooping crane numbers are stable and slowly increasing due to the results of a number of conservation... More ≫

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This wildlife status report looks at the whooping crane, North America's tallest bird. Whooping crane numbers are stable and slowly increasing due to the results of a number of conservation efforts to restore the species after it reached a global population low of fewer than two dozen individuals. The only self-sustaining migratory flock of whooping cranes numbers about 180 individuals and nests in Wood Buffalo National Park along the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The whooping crane is currently ranked as At Risk in Alberta. The Alberta Wildlife Act also lists the whooping crane as Endangered. The purpose of this status report is to compile and summarize both historic and up-to-date information and to update the current status of the whooping crane in Alberta. It is part of the Alberta Wildlife Status Report series, which provides comprehensive summaries of selected wildlife species intended to be useful to those managing populations of species and their...

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Distribution and relative abundance of the shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) in Alberta

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Barrow Lake, located about 60 km north of Fort Chipewyan, contains the only verified population of shortjaw cisco in Alberta. A specific search for shortjaw cisco in the area around Barrow Lake... More ≫

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Barrow Lake, located about 60 km north of Fort Chipewyan, contains the only verified population of shortjaw cisco in Alberta. A specific search for shortjaw cisco in the area around Barrow Lake was undertaken in an effort to gather additional information on its extent of occurrence in Alberta. Eight lakes in the region north of Lake Athabasca and east of Wood Buffalo National Park were surveyed by gillnetting in July and August 2000. No new populations of shortjaw cisco were found at these sites. Seven other nearby lakes had been sampled in 1996 and 1997 with similar results. Catch-per-unit-effort data from Barrow Lake suggest that this population of shortjaw cisco appears to have been stable over at least the past five years and probably the last 30 years. However, further monitoring is required to determine population trends with a scientifically acceptable level of confidence.

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Species inventory of the order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) for the shield inventory project

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During the summer months of 2000 odonate surveys were carried out for the Marguerite Crag and Tail, Maybelle River, and Richardson River Dunes Wildland Provincial Parks, located near the southeast... More ≫

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During the summer months of 2000 odonate surveys were carried out for the Marguerite Crag and Tail, Maybelle River, and Richardson River Dunes Wildland Provincial Parks, located near the southeast corner of Wood Buffalo National Park. An intensive survey (looking primarily for odonates) occurred from June 11th until June 21st, 2000, while a passive survey (primarily looking for lepidopterians with incidental collections of odonates) occurred from August 20th to August 24th, 2000. The surveys resulted in detecting the presence of 19 dragonfly species (12 in the spring, 7 in the late summer). Five significant records were established (those for Libellula julia, Aeshna subartica, Aeshna canadensis, Calopteryx aequabilis, and Leucorrhinia glacialis) dramatically extending those ranges and significantly contributing to the lack of current data on these species in Alberta. Recommendations include the need for odonate surveys later in the summer, and for protection of the fragile aquatic...

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