{"id":1996,"date":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-776\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:03:56","slug":"innovation-anthology-776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/04\/26\/innovation-anthology-776\/","title":{"rendered":"#776: Algar: Assessing Ecosystem Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 776.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Algar Project is named after a forested region south of Fort McMurray.<\/p>\n<p>This is where industry is trying to restore caribou habitat by planting trees on seismic lines.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wilson is a resource analyst with Silvacom.&nbsp;&nbsp; He says &nbsp;the Algar Project has now expanded<br \/>to study various ecosystem services for their potential market value.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SCOTT  WILSON: <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The most interested partner for that last couple of years has  been Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions. &nbsp;And they became interested in  Algar because they saw the benefits of the caribou habitat but they also  were curious about what other benefits were coming out of linear  restoration. &nbsp;And that&#8217;s when we started talking about eco system  services. &nbsp;And we were tracking linear density, carbon, timber supply,  but like I said, Alberta Innovates got interested in it. &nbsp;And at that  point, we needed to figure out some different ecosystem services to look  at. &nbsp; So, we still considered caribou habitat, timber supply, carbon  sequestration. &nbsp;But we also started looking at water quality impacts of  linear restoration, and biodiversity intactness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Scott Wilson, the plan is to develop a restoration offset model for use in other regions.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Alberta Innovates <\/p>\n<p>LEARN MORE AT INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY.COM<br \/><\/span><br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-04-26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvacom&#8217;s resource analyst Scott Wilson outlines potential for ecosystem values and offsets found in Algar forest restoration project<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Alberta Innovates)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8,46,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-forests","category-reclamation","category-wildlife","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16scott_wilson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}