Environment and Parks works to protect and enhance Alberta’s environment and ecosystems to ensure a sustainable future. The ministry works with Albertans, Indigenous communities and stakeholders to ensure the province’s environmental, social and economic outcomes for the future are met. The ministry engages Albertans to listen and understand the challenges in ensuring Alberta’s natural resources are managed using innovative and responsible approaches.
The fRI Research Caribou Program carries out applied research, in partnership with industry and the Government of Alberta, to help maintain caribou herds in Alberta into the future.
The Forest History Program chronicles the natural and management history of the foothills forest.
The fRI Research Grizzly Bear Program provides knowledge and planning tools to ensure the long-term conservation of grizzly bears in Alberta.
The program, formerly known as the Natural Disturbance Program, looks at landscape change at a huge scale: Canada's boreal forest.
The program carries out focused research on infestations of mountain pine beetle in Alberta.
In 2011, the Fish and Watersheds Program refocused on hydrology and became the Water Program.
Starting in 2013, this project is looking at how caribou and wolf behaviour is related to cutlines.
Collecting baseline health data for Alberta caribou herds.
This project will determine how MPB-killed stands are impacting caribou and grizzly bear habitat.
This project develops population recovery targets based on habitat, and non-invasive techniques for monitoring grizzly bear reproductive performance.
This project uses DNA from hair snags to create a population inventory of grizzly bears in BMA 3 and Jasper National Park.
This project will collect data and develop a tool to prioritize restoration in forested riparian areas for the Government of Alberta's WRRP.
This project focuses on calibrating a hydrological model, called Raven, for forest planning.
This project will develop a tool for assessing how watersheds in the eastern slopes are affected by disturbance.
Named in honor of the "father of forest hydrology in Western Canada," this project seeks to capture the value of long-term research and data sets.
This project will give an overview of what we know about managing riparian areas in Alberta and identify knowledge gaps.
This project is part of the Southern Rockies Watershed Project.
This demonstration project studies the degree to which the local biota respond to historical disturbance patterns
This DNA mark-recapture study uses hair snags to conduct the first repeat estimate of the population of grizzly bears in BMA 4.
This DNA mark-recapture study uses hair snags to conduct the first ever estimate of the population of grizzly bears in BMA 7.
RT @USGS_MT: Grizzly bears @YellowstoneNPS favor traveling on flat & less steep terrain & tend to move at slower speeds than is… https://t.co/hyq746o60J
