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MAY 23, 2000

The Nunavut Research Institute has issued a licence to a group of US researchers, permitting them to continue archaeological research on a 45-million-year-old fossilized forest buried under an Arctic island.

Controversy arose last year when Canadian paleontologists decried the team's methods, which they called intrusive and intensive. The team has promised to do minimal digging and limit the size of the group.

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U.S. researchers return to fossilized forest in Nunavut (The National Post 5/23)