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Renewable Energy Developments on Agricultural Land

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Renewable Energy on Agricultural Land Presented at the 2025 GRF Fall Information Session Agriculture remains the backbone of Alberta’s rural economy. At the same time, renewable energy projects are expanding quickly across the province. The new guidelines for renewable energy development on agricultural land help ensure that clean power projects move forward while protecting high-quality, […]

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Carol Frost

WEBINAR – Choosing flower species for restoration of beneficial insect biodiversity: community-level flower preferences and flower visiting insect responses to native vs. non-native flowers

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This presentation builds on insights from Renny Grilz’s Nuffield Canada Agricultural Scholarship project, which explores native seed producer networks and seedbanking in Europe and North America. Meewasin Valley Authority is investigating the potential to establish a native plant seedbank in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to support prairie conservation and restoration in Western Canada.

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Festhal spikelets

WEBINAR – The Role of Plant Breeding in Native Seedstock: Defining Challenges and Opportunities

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This presentation builds on insights from Renny Grilz’s Nuffield Canada Agricultural Scholarship project, which explores native seed producer networks and seedbanking in Europe and North America. Meewasin Valley Authority is investigating the potential to establish a native plant seedbank in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to support prairie conservation and restoration in Western Canada.

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Renny Grilz

WEBINAR – An exploration of native seed producer networks and seedbanking in Europe

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This presentation builds on insights from Renny Grilz’s Nuffield Canada Agricultural Scholarship project, which explores native seed producer networks and seedbanking in Europe and North America. Meewasin Valley Authority is investigating the potential to establish a native plant seedbank in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to support prairie conservation and restoration in Western Canada.

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Monitoring Frame

WEBINAR – Recovery Strategies for Industrial Development in the Dry Mixedgrass Natural Subregion

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The Recovery Strategies for Industrial Development in Native Grasslands project is a multi-stakeholder initiative to provide guidance to minimize future impacts, and promote effective reclamation/restoration of past and future disturbances in native grasslands. The purpose of the manuals is to set projects up for success and to provide expectations and understanding of what is required to reach the outcome of restoration over time.

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WEBINAR – Quantification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with native plants in natural and disturbed grasslands. A project update.

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Over the past two and a half decades, Canada has lost 25 million acres of grasslands (Nature Canada, 2022). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can establish symbiosis with more than 80% of plant families and they are able to improve plant growth through increased uptake of nutrients essential for plant growth, such as available soil phosphorus. AMF can help stabilize soil aggregates, alleviating erosion and improving soil structure and can increase plant tolerance to stress caused by biotic and abiotic factors.

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WORKING IN NATIVE GRASSLAND PRIMER

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Target Audience: Project Managers and Contractors.

Useful for: Landowners, inclusion in bid documents and pre-job meetings with contractors. 

Industrial activity, agriculture, recreation and conservation interests are often competing to use the same piece of land. Working together with these stakeholder groups, the oil and gas industry and government regulatory authorities have developed principles, guidelines and tools that reduce the footprint of industrial activity in this multiple-use landscape.

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The Revitalization of Alberta’s Certified Weed Free Forage

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The Revitalization of Alberta’s Certified Weed Free Forage Megan Evans, Megan Evans, Executive Director Alberta Invasive Species Council About the AISC Non-profit established in 2006 Large Board of Directors from variety of backgrounds Two staff Funding comes from a variety of sourcesWe aim to:–Increase awareness–Serve as a respected source of credible information–Foster partnerships–Engage and empower

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Event Cancellation

How to Use the Range Plant Community Guides and Recovery Strategies

Unfortunately with a number of late cancellations for the Range Plant Community Guides & Recovery Strategies Workshop scheduled for September 13th, 2023 we’ve had to make the tough decision to cancel the workshop for this fall due to insufficient registrations for a cost recovery event.  We will be offering the same workshop in conjunction with the CLRA Conference in March 2024.  The GRF Mailing list will receive notice/announcements about the event as details become available.

We are still proceeding as planned with the Grassland Assessment Classroom & Hands on Field Training on September 14th at the Cassils Hall/Antelope Creek Ranch.

Apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.