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Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve has
been awarded a grant to undertake the Redberry Lake Watershed Agri-Environmental
Project (AEGP).
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Educational Programming
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Educational programs for delivery to students both on-site and through
the internet are currently being developed. There will be a series
of 10 programs for kids in Kindergarten through grade 12.
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Hafford
Central School is the first school in Saskatchewan to participate in the
UNESCO Associated Schools Program (ASPnet), a
global network of some 7 900 educational institutions in 176 countries who
work in support of quality education in practice.
Associated
Schools commit to promoting the ideals of UNESCO by conducting pilot
projects in favour of better preparing children and young people to meet
effectively the challenges of an increasingly complex and interdependent
world. An emphasis is placed on reinforcing the four pillars of Learning
(learning to know, to do, to be and to live together) and promoting quality
education. ASPnet teachers and students have many opportunities to work
together beyond their classrooms to develop innovative educational
approaches, methods and materials from local to global levels. To
learn more about the program, email aspnet@redberrylake.ca.
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Past
Projects
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Documents
Understanding Community
Capacity Using Adaptive and Reflexive Research Practices:
Lessons From Two Canadian Biosphere Reserves
By: Sharmalene Mendis-Millard; Maureen
G. Reed
Society &
Natural Resources - An International Journal
Department of Geography,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Abstract
Community-based ecosystem
management requires understanding a community's capacity. We argue that
communities can make important contributions not only to specific
assessments of community capacity, but also to the conceptualization of
the term itself through community-based research methods that are both
adaptive and reflexive. A research initiative that illustrates such
practices is reported here. We begin by describing our initial
conceptual framework of community capacity that identified resource
capitals and mobilizing factors. In focus groups, residents of two
Canadian biosphere reserves used this framework to assess their capacity
to meet biosphere reserve mandates and to provide critical reflections
that helped to drive revisions to the framework. Our new framework is
more sensitive to temporal and spatial dimensions of capacity, local
social relations, and local culture. We conclude that adaptive and
reflexive community-based offer methodological alternatives for
research, help advance conceptions of community capacity, and help
produce social change.
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Chemical and physical
properties of some saline lakes in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Jeff S Bowman and
Julian P Sachs
School of Oceanography, University of Washington,
Seattle 98195-5351, USA
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be
found online at:
http://www.salinesystems.org/content/4/1/3
Received:22 October 2007
Accepted:22 April 2008
Published:22 April 2008
Abstract
Background
The Northern Great Plains of Canada are home to numerous permanent and
ephemeral athalassohaline lakes. These lakes display a wide range of ion
compositions, salinities, stratification patterns, and ecosystems. Many
of these lakes are ecologically and economically significant to the
Great Plains Region. A survey of the physical characteristics and
chemistry of 19 lakes was carried out to assess their suitability for
testing new tools for determining past salinity from the sediment
record.
Results
Data on total dissolved solids (TDS), specific conductivity,
temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), and pH were measured in June, 2007.
A comparison of these data with past measurements indicates that
salinity is declining at Little Manitou and Big Quill Lakes in the
province of Saskatchewan. However salinity is rising at other lakes in
the region, including Redberry and Manito Lakes.
Conclusion
The wide range of salinities found across a small geographic area makes
the Canadian saline lakes region ideal for testing salinity proxies. A
nonlinear increase in salinity at Redberry Lake is likely influenced by
its morphometry. This acceleration has ecological implications for the
migratory bird species found within the Redberry Important Bird Area.
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Respecting the Perspective
There’s More to the Landscape than Meets the Eye
By Lee Everts, Department of Geography, University of
Saskatchewan
(Fourth year student of PhD programme with the Department
of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan.)
As part of my research
project, “Respecting a perspective – There’s more to this landscape than
meets the eye”, I have had an opportunity to speak with elder residents
(age 60 and above) of Hafford and Val Marie, two rural agricultural
communities in Saskatchewan. Using methods that draw on ethnographic and
ethno-methodological traditions, the purpose of this research is to
describe the meaningfulness that these men and women derive from their
relationships with their cultural landscapes. The backdrop for this work
is coloured by ongoing concerns regarding the vitality of these
communities – economically, socially, and culturally. Moreover, for these
two communities, their ecological vitality is also pertinent given their
association with protected areas (Hafford is located within the Redberry
Lake Biosphere Reserve while Val Marie sits at the gateway to Grasslands
National Park). In keeping with current thought that recognises the value
and importance of the ideas of elder residents, my work describes how men
and women who have aged in place (and wish to continue doing so) can offer
perspectives drawn from decades of trial and error and ongoing experience
on issues as diverse as their relationship with nature and the environment
to the challenges faced by agriculture.
Breeding
biology and population dynamics of white-winged scoters at Redberry Lake,
Saskatchewan
 This
current project was initiated in 2000 with the goal of understanding
reasons for white-winged scoter decline. Redberry Lake has the highest
known local breeding population of white-winged scoters in North America
and the population has been studied intensively in the past (from 1976 to
1985), thus making Redberry Lake a good place to study white-winged
scoters. On an annual basis, in conjunction with the Redberry Lake
Biosphere Reserve, Environment Canada, Ducks Unlimited Canada, and the
University
of
Saskatchewan
, we examine the breeding ecology of the white-winged scoter at Redberry
Lake.
Read more about this project
here.
Introduction
to an Inventory of the Ecological Services Provided by Ranchers and
Farmers in the
Redberry
Lake
Biosphere Reserve
By Céline Bonnel and Olivier Garrigou,
(2002 study)
The study addresses the
inventory of ecological services provided by farmers and ranchers in the
Redberry Lake World Biosphere Reserve. This project is one of the medium
term strategic actions outlined in the Community’s Plan for
Sustainability. It
specifically addresses the following action: Develop
compensatory mechanisms for ecological services performed by local farmers
and ranchers. A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
Note: some figures have been removed to ensure the entire report can be
easily downloaded.
Redberry
Lake Cooperation Plan
Prepared by Sherry Sian,
(2002)
In
the spring of 2001, the Community Committee for Redberry Lake Biosphere
Reserve initiated a sustainable community planning process. This series of
workshops generated a plan entitled, Redberry
Lake
Biosphere Reserve: A Community’s Plan for Sustainability.
The projects deal with agriculture, health, community outreach, and
environmental education.
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