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The research was partially funded by Genome BC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, the Natural Resources Canada Genomics program, and the BC Cancer Foundation.

The state governments are just not understanding how critical the issue is," a senior official at the ministry of forests and environment said.

The state governments are just not understanding how critical the issue is," a senior official at the ministry of forests and environment said.

A lasting new relationship would see First Nations: - Receive half of every dollar the province collects in stumpage fees, with individual nations compensated on the basis of how much logging occurs on their lands (a 50-50 arrangement already exists in nearby Washington State for the sharing of salmon resources); - Become active partners or co-managers in land-use planning, something that is already happening to a limited extent between the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs and provincial Ministry of Forests officials in northwestern BC; and - Be given the same opportunities as forest companies--in a nutshell, long-term access (not one-off, five-year agreements) to defined areas of land.

Ministry of Forests predicts having to replace 80 per cent of their technical workforce in 10 years.

The State Of British Columbia's Forests - 2004 British Columbia's Ministry of Forests released a report on the sustainability of the province's forests on March 10, 2005.

According to Ministry of Forests district manager Jack Dryburgh and compliance and enforcement supervisor Al Cross, the slides are under review and investigation, so they could not comment on the investigation specifically.

Local representatives of the BC Ministry of Forests, however, were incensed.