{"id":596,"date":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-232\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:05","slug":"innovation-anthology-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/06\/09\/innovation-anthology-232\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #232:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 232.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBeavers are nature\u2019s engineers. And in the forest, beaver dams create ponds and help shape how the land drains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s why reclamation scientists at Syncrude Canada decided to study what beavers do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRon Lewko leads the Environmental Research Team at Syncrude.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nRON LEWKO:<\/b><em>  We learned quite a bit.  We looked at over 784 dams and flew over them with helicopters to  look at how they are engineering the landscape.  And based on that, we\u2019re using that knowledge to enhance our drainage plans and to make a more sustainable closure plan.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Ron Lewko, beavers and their waterworks attract biodiversity, which is good when rebuilding the landscape after mining the oil sands\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nRON LEWKO: <\/b> <em>So the closure plan is our plan once mining and upgrading activity is done, what the landscape is going to look like as we turn it back to nature.  The baseline is a drainage plan, but incorporates all aspects of land form design, reintroducing biodiversity, native plants and shrubs.  So all the aspects of reclamation are put into one plan.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRon Lewko says it takes about fifteen years to reestablish the forest ecosystem in a reclaimed site.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to<b> Syncrude Canada.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-06-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beavers are nature\u2019s engineers. And in the forest, beaver dams create ponds and help shape how the land drains. That\u2019s why reclamation scientists at <b>Syncrude Canada<\/b> decided to study what <b>beavers<\/b> do. According to <b>Ron Lewko<\/b>,  researchers looked at 784 beaver dams.  They even flew over them with helicopters to see how they are engineering the forest landscape. <em>(Syncrude Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forests","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-232ron_lewko.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}