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Forest harvesting tenures can be a long, difficult process for forest companies to go through. When an application is made to the province to log in a Tree Farm License area (TFL), the rolls of red tape are huge. Harvest and reforestation plans have to be in place before public consultation sessions are arranged, and many reports have to be put before the Minister of Forests before approvals are given.

Over the past decade, land claims have further complicated the process as First Nations assert their rights to protect their traditional territories.

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Forest harvesting tenures can be a long, difficult process for forest companies to go through. When an application is made to the province to log in a Tree Farm License area (TFL), the rolls of red tape are huge. Harvest and reforestation plans have to be in place before public consultation sessions are arranged, and many reports have to be put before the Minister of Forests before approvals are given.

Over the past decade, land claims have further complicated the process as First Nations assert their rights to protect their traditional territories.

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A report in a medical journal reveals that there is a high turn-over rate among doctors who practice in remote communities in British Columbia.

Carole Dawson, family, children and health director for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, told Raven's Eye that her first-hand experience in such communities convinces her that the study is right on the money, but she said it doesn't tell the whole story.

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A report in a medical journal reveals that there is a high turn-over rate among doctors who practice in remote communities in British Columbia.

Carole Dawson, family, children and health director for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, told Raven's Eye that her first-hand experience in such communities convinces her that the study is right on the money, but she said it doesn't tell the whole story.

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Review

Since the Time of the Transformers: The Ancient Heritage of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah

By Alan D. McMillan

252 pages, $29.95

UBC Press, Vancouver

For the past four decades, the West Coast of British Columbia and Washington State has been the site of some of the most extensively studied archaeological sites on the continent.

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Review

Since the Time of the Transformers: The Ancient Heritage of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah

By Alan D. McMillan

252 pages, $29.95

UBC Press, Vancouver

For the past four decades, the West Coast of British Columbia and Washington State has been the site of some of the most extensively studied archaeological sites on the continent.

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Review

The Yuquot Whaler's Shrine

By Aldona Jonaitis

233 pages, $55

Douglas & McIntyre

The removal of the whaler'?s shrine near Yuquot has long remained an open wound to the Mowachaht First Nation.

Taken by anthropologist Franz Boaz in 1905 from a tiny island near the centre of a small lake behind the ancient village of Yuquot, the shrine?s sacred carvings and skulls remain in storage at the Museum of Natural History in New York where they've been for the past 95 years.

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Review

The Yuquot Whaler's Shrine

By Aldona Jonaitis

233 pages, $55

Douglas & McIntyre

The removal of the whaler'?s shrine near Yuquot has long remained an open wound to the Mowachaht First Nation.

Taken by anthropologist Franz Boaz in 1905 from a tiny island near the centre of a small lake behind the ancient village of Yuquot, the shrine?s sacred carvings and skulls remain in storage at the Museum of Natural History in New York where they've been for the past 95 years.

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Review

Eden Robinson's literary career is certainly off to a running start. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of stories published in 1996, received the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was selected as a New York Times Editor?s Choice and Notable Book of the Year. She followed it up this year with Monkey Beach, her first novel, garnering nominations for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award.

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Review

Eden Robinson's literary career is certainly off to a running start. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of stories published in 1996, received the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was selected as a New York Times Editor?s Choice and Notable Book of the Year. She followed it up this year with Monkey Beach, her first novel, garnering nominations for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award.