Alberta Land Reclamation
There are many different types of land in
Alberta. In the west, the Rocky Mountains and the
Foothills are
covered by alpine (mountain) and subalpine vegetation. In southern
Alberta there are areas of fairly flat grasslands. Moving through
central Alberta the land is flat to rolling and there are more trees and
bushes. Most of Alberta's forests can be found in the northern and
northwestern areas of the province.
These areas took millions of years to become what we see
today. The effects of people's activities across the province can
also be seen today. The environmental effects are different in
each situation and without conservation and
reclamation, problems can
worsen. A few examples of the major land disturbances are surface
coal mining, surface mining and extraction of oil
sands, waste disposal
sites and activities such as forestry, pipelining and
transportation.
Reprinted from Focus On Land Reclamation (1999) with permission of
Alberta Environment.
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