Download or read book Ecological Reclamation in Canada at Century's Turn written by Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists. Meeting and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents proceedings of a conference on the ecologically based reclamation and restoration of lands and waters disturbed by human activities. Topics of papers included restoration of mined lands, disturbed wetlands, soils disturbed by seeding and irrigation practices, lands and waters disturbed by removal and dumping of urban snow, and more general topics including effects of climate change over a major river basin and the role of environmental impact assessment in ecological restoration. The final paper is an evaluation of the ecological restoration situation in Canada. Although papers were presented from most parts of Canada, emphasis was on the Canadian prairies.