Project background: 
Northern Alberta contains the largest deposit of oil sands in the world and conventional open-pit mining used to access portions of the deposit removes large expanses of upland forests and peatland basins. After years of forest and open-water wetland reclamation, industry partners and restoration scientists are now looking towards reconstructing the pre-existing peatlands. The first self-sustaining reclamation fen and associated watershed (the Fen) was constructed on an abandoned extraction area near Fort McMurray, Alberta (Price et al. 2010). A multi-factorial design was planted in 2013 to determine the most effective method to establish mosses and plants. This project is a collaboration between Colorado State University (CSU) and Waterloo University, involvi

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