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Prairie Habitat Joint Venture

Prairie Habitat Joint Venture is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Prairie Habitat Joint Venture rather than just read about it. In short: The Prairie Habitat Joint Venture is a partnership between governments, organizations, and conservation groups in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. It is one of four Canadian habitat joint ventures operating as part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and is contiguous with the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture in the United States.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Prairie Habitat Joint Venture from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Prairie Habitat Joint Venture is a partnership between governments, organizations, and conservation groups in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. It is one of four Canadian habitat joint ventures operating as part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and is contiguous with the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture in the United States.

Structure The joint venture is administered via an advisory board consisting of members from the following government agencies and independent organizations:

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Alberta Sustainable Resource Development Alberta NAWMP Partnership Canadian Wildlife Service (part of Environment Canada) Ducks Unlimited Canada Manitoba Conservation Manitoba Heritage Habitat Corporation Nature Conservancy of Canada Saskatchewan Environment Saskatchewan Watershed Authority Wildlife Habitat Canada

Funding By 2005, the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture had received $641 million in funding from several sources.

Federal government of the United States, $198.7 million United States non-government, $182 million Federal Government of Canada, $94.4 million Provincial governments in Canada, $77.3 million Canadian not-for-profit organizations, $42.9 million State governments in the United States, $37.4 million Canadian private, corporate and other, $8.7 million Others, $94,000

Purpose The program's focus areas are the prairie and aspen parkland of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The Peace River parkland region in northeastern British Columbia is also a primary conservation target. Additional programs administered by this venture include the conservation of the western boreal forest ecology in the Taiga Plains, Taiga Cordillera, Boreal Cordillera, Taiga Shield and Boreal Plains.

Activities The venture has secured land through various programs. By 2005, a total of 3,642,042 acres (14,738.8 km2) had been secured, of which 475,856 acres (1,925.7 km2) were permanently secured via acquisition, land donation, conservation easement, or Crown land transfer; 800,808 acres (3,240.8 km2) were in stewardship; and 2,365,378 acres (9,572.3 km2) are in the scope of various agreements, including leases, conservation agreements, and land use agreements. Approximately 55% of the required funding projected in 1989 has been received and allocated to various programs in order to secure 9,800,000 acres (40,000 km2) of land identified by provincial implementation plans to be within the scope of this venture. Three partnership programs with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have led to the conversion of agricultural and environmentally sensitive land to perennial cover, consistent with the goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. A marsh monitoring program is under development, and will be implemented once adequate long-term capital and operational funding has been secured.

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References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Prairie Habitat Joint Venture

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Prairie Habitat Joint Venture claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Prairie Habitat Joint Venture before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Prairie Habitat Joint Venture ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Prairie Habitat Joint Venture

In research: Prairie Habitat Joint Venture appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Prairie Habitat Joint Venture is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Nature conservation organizations based in Canada, North American Waterfowl Management Plan, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Prairie Habitat Joint Venture outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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