Classification and potential land use of prairie sloughs in the Minnedosa area of Manitoba / Arthur E. Osborne
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TextPublication details: Winnipeg, MB : University of Manitoba, 1979.Description: ix, 123 leaves : ill. ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: Intensification of agricultural crop production in Manitoba has resulted in increased drainage pressure on small wetlands called sloughs.Although agricultural and food production should be first priority,other resources should be considered as well. Consequently, land and water managers have become concerned over the possible environmental impacts and benefits to agriculture of extensive slough drainage. This practicum introduces the slough drainage issue in the broader framework of conservation and goes on to discuss the environmental implications of slough drainage. The literature review describes the physical and hydrological characteristics of sloughs; discusses slough focused soil development; explains the value of wetland ecological indicators; and identifies recent wetland and land use capability classification systems. These characteristics and classification systems are then used to describe and evaluate the sloughs on the Minnedosa-Reston Till Plain in terms of the capabil
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Thesis(M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-109).
Intensification of agricultural crop production in Manitoba has resulted in increased drainage pressure on small wetlands called sloughs.Although agricultural and food production should be first priority,other resources should be considered as well. Consequently, land and water managers have become concerned over the possible environmental impacts and benefits to agriculture of extensive slough drainage. This practicum introduces the slough drainage issue in the broader framework of conservation and goes on to discuss the environmental implications of slough drainage. The literature review describes the physical and hydrological characteristics of sloughs; discusses slough focused soil development; explains the value of wetland ecological indicators; and identifies recent wetland and land use capability classification systems. These characteristics and classification systems are then used to describe and evaluate the sloughs on the Minnedosa-Reston Till Plain in terms of the capabil