Resource Category: Presentations

Effects on annual crops are mixed. The new conditions may reduce wheat yields, but not for maize and potatoes.

Inter-Department Climate change Group, Government of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 30, 2006

An interpretation of potential impacts of climate change on the basic productivity and characteristics of ecosystems within the context of the economic sectors that these ecosystems support.

At Edmonton House, a large fire burned “all around us” on April 27th (1796) and burned on both sides of the river. On May 7th , light canoes arrived at from Buckingham House damaged from the shallow water. Timber intended to be used at Edmonton House could not be sent to the post “for want of water” in the North Saskatchewan River.

Climate change has potential for significant impact on water supplies in the Prairies and the City of Regina.

This large belt of country embraces districts, some of which are valuable for the purposes of the agriculturalist, while others will for ever be comparatively useless.

At Edmonton House, a large fire burned “all around us” on April 27th
(1796) and burned on both sides of the river. On May 7th, light canoes
arrived at from Buckingham House damaged from the shallow water.

Dave Sauchyn, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative Mary Vetter, Luther College University of Regina , Saskatchewan, Canada

Long-term moisture variability in the western boreal forest

A projected increase in climate variability, including more frequent drought and major hydroclimatic events,