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Indigenous peoples have traditionally viewed plants as teachers. Modern ideas like regenerative agriculture are only starting to realize some of those lessons.
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Natural resources more than just ‘stuff’ in our ecosystem

Exploring Indigenous agricultural views of relationship and reciprocity with the land

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In scientific and conservation terminology, “ecosystem services” refer to the benefits that wetlands, diverse plant and animal life and wild spaces provide to society. For Indigenous peoples, those things are gifts, the audience was told during the Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture Conference in mid-March. The virtual conference was co-hosted March 12-14 by the University of
Left to right: Michael Nadler, CEO of Ducks Unlimited Canada; Dr. Gordon Goldsborough, Manitoba Historical Society; Hon. Tracy Schmidt, Minister of Environment and Climate Change; Roger D’Eschambault, President of Ducks Unlimited Canada.
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March 17 declared Ducks Unlimited Canada Day in Manitoba

Celebrating 85 years of wetland conservation

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March 17 is officially Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) Day in Manitoba. The official designation is intended to honour the conservation organization’s long history of restoring and managing wetlands and grasslands and protecting waterfowl and other wildlife in the province. “On behalf of the Manitoba government, I would like to congratulate everyone at Ducks Unlimited Canada
Marlon Bergen demonstrates his tracked wetlands harvester at the Redboine Watershed District’s Pelly’s Lake Project.
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Tech widens door for cattail-based fertilizer

Cattails can suck up phosphorus and form a bridge to get that nutrient back in the soil, but consistent harvest access has been a problem

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A new-to-North-America wetland harvester could revolutionize the way wetlands are managed and provide cheap, sustainable fertilizer in the process, according to at least one watershed district that has tested the machine. “It definitely has the potential to be a game-changer for wetland maintenance, drain maintenance and biomass harvesting,” said Redboine Watershed District manager Justin Reid.
A flux tower installed as part of a network of sensors measuring greenhouse gas emissions across Canadian wetlands.
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Prairie wetlands emissions lower than expected

Research from Ducks Unlimited Canada used high-tech towers to measure greenhouse gas coming off wetlands

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Wetlands in Western Canada may emit significantly less methane than previously thought, according to recent research from Ducks Unlimited Canada. “There was always this notion that Prairie wetlands might be emitting a bunch of methane in the spring as they thaw,” said project lead Pascal Badiou, one of the scientists working for DUC’s research arm,
Birds gather at Whitewater Lake, the only key biodiversity area that’s been recognized in Manitoba so far.
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Many key biodiversity areas identified in Manitoba

The rigorous international standard has now entered the conservation toolbox in Canada

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The Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada has identified 75 sites across the province as potential candidates for designation as Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). The designation is a relatively new conservation standard adopted in Canada in 2021. KBAs are evaluated using international criteria that recognize special areas that support rare and threatened species and ecosystems, and areas of importance within the life
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Water management: What’s the plan?

A full-fledged water management strategy has been in the works for over a year

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As Manitobans ride a pendulum swing from too little to too much water, they await the province’s promised comprehensive water strategy — the first update to the plan since the early 2000s. The volatile weather has made plain why it’s needed. “We’re seeing an increase in variability,” said Dimple Roy, director of water management with
Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.
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Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide

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Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only one per cent of Earth’s surface but store more than 20 per cent of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 6 in Science by a
A portion of Oak Hammock Marsh, near Stonewall, today.
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DOWN THE DRAIN: Manitoba’s wetlands a shadow of their former selves

It’ll take years to reverse the trend, but the effects will be cumulative

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Manitoba farmers heading out to plant this spring can thank the likes of R.T. Riley for the fact that they have fields to work instead of swamps. Riley, best known today as one of the founders of the Great West Life Assurance company (now Canada Life), was the son of a prominent British businessman who
Project to analyze wetland carbon capture
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Project to analyze wetland carbon capture

The study, taking in both cattle and cropland, hopes to see results by 2023

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A joint study in southwestern Manitoba hopes to jump-start understanding of carbon storage and greenhouse gas release from wetlands in two important agricultural landscapes. The study has deployed sensor-equipped towers (flux towers) to measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions from wetlands on both cattle and annual crop farms. The project is funded by the Canadian
Glenn Babee poses with the plaque which marks the 160 acres of prairie and marsh named for him.
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Ducks Unlimited names 160 acres for Manitoba conservationist

Glenn Babee’s fingerprints are on conservation projects across Manitoba, including Delta Marsh and the land that now bears his name

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Ducks Unlimited has named 160 acres of marsh and prairie grasses in honour of conservationist Glenn Babee, who helped restore the land in the 1990s. “When you’re in the field every day, you see how much habitat is being lost. That always pushed me to work even harder to save the natural landscape,” said Babee,

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