00:30:52 Sean Di Stéfano: Welcome to the RR committee symposium! Please introduce yourself: your full name, where you're from, and who you work for 00:31:08 Sean Di Stéfano: I'm the tech liaison for the RR committee: 00:31:21 Ashley: Hi :) 00:31:31 Sean Di Stéfano: Sean Di Stefano, Moscow ID, University of Idaho 00:32:07 Brenda Schladweiler: Hi I'm Brenda Schladweiler, Chair of the R&R Committee...talk with you soon. I'm in Gillette WY and with BKS Environmental. WELCOME! 00:32:15 Miranda Meehan: Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND 00:32:33 SteveHale: Hi, Steve Hale, Triton Environmental, I work from Montrose Colorado 00:32:35 Anne McIntosh (she/her): Hello, I am Anne McIntosh from University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta, Canada (polar vortex area). 00:38:06 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: Mae Elsinger, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Brandon Manitoba. 00:38:18 John Hendrickson: John Hendrickson Mandan North Dakota. USDA-ARS 00:38:19 Jedidiah.Dunn: Jedidiah Dunn in Hawaii with the NRCS 00:38:36 Jarrett Lardy: Jarrett lardy, North Dakota State, graduate student 00:38:38 TCWP: Erika Edmiston, Teton County Weed & Pest District, Jackson, WY 00:38:40 Caden: Caden Tuhy. USFS North Dakota 00:38:42 Darin Sherritt: Darin Sherritt, Tannas Conservation Services. St Albert Alberta 00:38:49 Liz Bailey: Liz Bailey, master's student at Utah State University 00:38:49 Carly Moore: Carly Moore, Edmonton Alberta. Gov't of Alberta 00:38:51 Toni Klemm: Toni Klemm, USDA-ARS and Northern Plains Climate Hub 00:39:02 jmulinix: Jacob Mulinix, OSMRE, Denver, CO 00:39:06 Jedediah Smith: Jedediah Smith. Salida, CO. USFS Rangeland Management Specialist Pathways 00:39:13 Lina Aoyama: Lina Aoyama, University of Oregon, graduate student 00:39:45 Leanne Correll: Leanne Correll, SER Conservation District Wyoming 00:39:54 Ashley: Hello! I'm Ashley Easton and attending from beautiful British Columbia BC, Canada. Ecologist / Reclamation Specialist 00:39:54 Tammy Cheshier: Tammy Cheshier, Tarleton State University, undergrad student 00:40:04 Kerri O'Shaughnessy: Kerri O'Shaughnessy, Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society (Cows and Fish), Riparian Specialist, Edmonton, Alberta Canada 00:40:15 Melinda Ellison: Melinda Ellison, Range Livestock Specialist, University of Idaho 00:40:47 Reese Sewell (she/her): Reese Sewell, Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands, USFS 00:40:53 T. Cole Christie: Cole Christie, undergraduate range/reclamation student, University of Alberta 00:41:00 Mike Humann: Mike Humann Bismarck North Dakota North Dakota Department of Trust Lands 00:41:26 Lee Moltzahn: Lee Moltzahn, Nature Conservancy of Canada - Alberta Region 00:41:31 Adam Gourley: Adam Gourley, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, OK State Alum, Owner of Open Range Management, LLC. 00:41:51 Rachel Whitehouse: Rachel Whitehouse, BC Ministry of Forests and Lands, Canada 00:42:07 Eric Philipp-Petrick: Eric Philipp-Petrick, Heritage University, Undergrad Environmental Science Student 00:43:05 Renee Benally: Renee Benally, Bureau of Indian Affairs-Navajo Region, Natural Resource Specialist - Tuba City, AZ 00:44:11 Ed Vasquez: Ed Vasquez, OSMRE, Denver, CO 00:47:26 Jacob Lardy: Jacob Lardy, ND Dept of Trust Lands, Land Management Specialist 01:12:17 Barry Irving: Tracy, turn your video on? 01:13:46 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: it works fine 01:33:21 Darin Sherritt: question as to why a vegetation assessment wasn't used such as range health instead of just looking at species composition. 01:33:53 Darin Sherritt: secondly, are chemical soil measures practical in a field setting as opposed to physical measurements? 01:34:08 Darin Sherritt: those are questions for Anne 01:35:39 Ashley: How could the research results and learnings be used to inform potential changes, or avenues for change, to current reclamation practices and/or assessment methodology? 01:37:07 Anne McIntosh (she/her): Thank-you Brenda! We are happy to answer more questions via email. anne.mcintosh@ualberta.ca tracykupchenko@gmail.com 01:38:09 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: soil biological characteristics, soil health? What you had measured was traditional physical and chemical parameters. Would you consider any tests for soil microbial carbon, and ones to characterize the abundance and different taxa of soil micro-organisms? 01:38:11 Miranda Meehan: Thank you ladies, we are excited to have you join us next month for the ND Reclamation Webinars! 01:41:16 Miranda Meehan: For those of you interested, you can view the agenda and register for our upcoming webinar series here: https://ndreclamation.com/ 01:43:31 Lysandra Pyle: It sounds like the sound is going through your speakers. Instructions for sharing audio with shared content. Click on Share Screen on the meeting toolbar. Select the program or desktop you wish to share. Select Share Sound in the bottom-left corner of the share selection window. 01:43:37 Anne McIntosh (she/her): @Mae - we did look at the soil mite communities when we did the cultivated lands sampling. This can be part of the challenge of research vs scaling up to a provincial monitoring program - the balance of how many indicators to measure and their ease of collection of data and then having the expertise to be able to analyze them (e.g., having an acarologist). We discussed doing microbial analyses, but the advisory group decided that it wasn't practical at the time. Optimally it would be good to include microbial data as well (e.g., I have done phospholipid fatty acid analysis and microbial respiration in other projects). If the resources were available then this would definitely be something to include in monitoring. There are always trade-offs. 01:46:05 Sean Di Stéfano: I apologize for the background noise 01:46:12 Anne McIntosh (she/her): @Ashley - the key is the collaboration that Tracy and I talked about. We need to make sure that researchers aren't working in silos and are engaging with industry and government and regulators to make sure the information is being translated to those who can use it. Hopefully presentations like ours can also help share this information. Ultimately policy is in the hands of the government and beyond our control as researchers - we can just provide them with our data. Thanks! 01:47:24 Sean Di Stéfano: Background noise should be fixed now 01:49:32 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: @Anne. Thanks. Makes sense. Costly tests. Where I would like to see reclamation go is to consider a multi-species annual cover crop stage to help ameliorate the soil so it is in better shape, chemically, physically, AND biologically, to accommodate perennials. I did a study similar as yours at Rumsey Block in AB and found under some wellsites with productive exotic perennials that the soil seemed healthy (lower bulk density, higher carbon and nitrogen). This inspired my idea, along with what the soil health enthusiasts are doing with regenerative agriculture. 01:52:01 Darin Sherritt: I think Mae there needs to be a split in terms of construction techniques. Minimum disturbance, which has been industry standard on native grassland where it is possible, has a much smaller impact on soil and vegetation compared to the full builds that were looked at in Rumsey, but for full build sites I would agree with you. 01:52:18 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: AGREED!!! 01:56:30 Anne McIntosh (she/her): Great points Mae and Darrin. Thanks! 01:57:15 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: Any time. Good luck with your work! 02:21:35 randi lupardus: tech issues ha. While we wait, are there any publications looking at minimum disturbance reclamation? I know it's recommended in some handbooks, but I haven't come across any pubs. - for anyone who can answer the question : ) 02:23:48 randi lupardus: .. I take that back, I have a couple on oak mats, but that's it 02:23:48 Darin Sherritt: as far as I know there aren't any specific publications looking at min disturbance, I don't know if there was ever data to support the decision to recommend it other than experience and anecdotal evidence. Peggy Desserud may have looked at a few min disturbance sites but I don't know if that data was published. 02:24:36 randi lupardus: ok, thanks Darin! 02:24:45 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: @Randi, I am only aware of one technical guide from Alberta from around 2000 or so. Don't recall seeing any research papers but will have to look on my other computer. There was My MSc. and Peggy Desserud's MSC/PhD research at Rumsey and in the foothills. 02:25:40 Darin Sherritt: None of my research sites were on min disturb, however I have assessed approx. 300 min disturb wellsites in the last 7 years 02:26:17 Sean Di Stéfano: This a pub on the economics of environmental bonding of OG but it states that min disturbed can be an effective tool for regulation: https://doi.org/10.21000/JASMR09010001 02:27:17 Darin Sherritt: Might also be of importance that min disturb is only used on shallow gas, where a large rig is required it isn't effective as the disturbance area required is too big 02:29:10 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: A great synopsis of over 100 min disturbance reclamation wellsite work at PCAP's Native Prairie Restoration Workshop 2 weeks ago. Presentation recorded. 02:30:05 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: Latin name for western aster? 02:32:19 Jedediah Smith: Without removal of the SE source, it seems like western aster would prevail. Have you attempted removal of western asters at the end of the growing season as a means for removing SE from the site? 02:32:23 Mae Elsinger AAFC-Brandon MB: thanks! 02:34:57 Sean Di Stéfano: sdistefano@uidaho.edu 02:35:01 Sean Di Stéfano: https://rangelands.org/committees/reclamation-and-restoration-committee/ 02:35:41 Dean Stacy: Thank you!!