Where Research Leads, Healthy Environments Follow
Vertex brings together internal research, field experience, and proven methodologies to develop best practices for vegetation management, reclamation, and revegetation. Our team of plant science specialists combines technical expertise with practical, field-based solutions to deliver innovative, efficient, and effective outcomes. By integrating research with operations, we support clients in restoring complex sites while improving project efficiency and reducing long-term maintenance needs.
Our vegetation experts focus on thorough assessment, data-driven evaluation, and the application of leading-edge practices. This approach allows us to support large-scale revegetation and reclamation programs with accuracy and consistency across diverse environments.
Vertex has conducted rare plant assessments on more than 250,000 hectares across Western Canada. Using internal data collection applications, our team can complete large projects within short field seasons while reducing data handling time and resource requirements. We have developed successful rare plant transfer techniques that combine traditional knowledge with western science to ensure plants are protected, relocated, or managed effectively.
Vertex applies extensive revegetation and planting experience on major projects across various industries, including oil sands mines, coal mines, peatland harvesting, conventional oil, insitu-sands, and linear infrastructure. Our team has developed innovative propagule collection methods and planting techniques that streamline execution schedules, support site stability, and reduce long-term costs related to invasive species control and infill planting.
Through research-driven practices, efficient field execution, and a commitment to ecological integrity, Vertex supports clients in restoring landscapes with long-lasting results. If you want this expanded into multiple sections or designed as a formatted service page, I can build that next.
Case Studies
Reclamation Certification Using Disturbance Recovery Models and Remote Sensing
Objective
Providing practical and economical solutions is one of Vertex’s commitments to our clients. Conventional reclamation assessment of oil sand exploration well/corehole programs requires field assessments of all associated well sites and access roads. These field assessments have a high cost and environmental impact and are often highly subjective. Vertex’s Research and Development, Operations and Remote Sensing teams worked collaboratively to develop a remote sensing approach combined with disturbance recovery models to overcome these limitations. The approach utilizes remote sensing data and ecological resiliency factors to rank the well sites and access roads, and only sites with reduced recovery/resiliency are field assessed. Between 2021 and 2022, Vertex used this approach for Imperial Oil and received a reclamation certificate for a 29-site oil sands exploration program.
Biophysical Impact & Wetland Assessment Reports
Objective
Retained by the client to complete a Biophysical Impact Assessment Report (BIA) for submission to the municipality as well as the completion of a Wetland Assessment and Impact Report (WAIR) for submission to Alberta Environment and Parks. The client is submitting a development permit for approximately 68 acres of land in a large western Canadian urban centre that will include residential (R-G, M-1, M-2), mixed-use (MU-1), and commercial (C-C1) areas.
Wind Farm Biophysical Surveys
Objective
The client purchased a proposed wind farm development. They were seeking regulatory advice on the data that had been collected to date and what surveys Vertex recommend to be completed. The client was looking to avoid regulatory delays that they have seen on current wind farms that they were constructing. Vertex incorporated options to address concerns that they had.
Virtual Land Department Outsourcing
Objective
An Energy & Production (E&P) client is a non-op working interest partner in a large property in NE BC. The client, being a foreign entity, was looking for a company in Calgary to house its, files, manage its day-to-day land obligations and provide a Calgary address for correspondence with industry
