Although the programme had its origins in the stochastic analysis of radiata pine plantations, it is widely applicable to other species of even-aged plantations and forests.
Long ago a common refuge for slaves who escaped from the colonial sugar plantations, it was named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008.
Last year it promised to promote more women and to ensure there is no sexual harassment on the plantations it owns and buys from.
Located in the midst of rubber and palm plantations, it is a centre of trade and transshipment for rubber, tobacco, tea, natural fibres, palm oil, and rice.
At least, not in a way that is so cut-and-dried that a simple public case can be made for it.If the commission only owned commercial timber plantations, it would be easy to know what to say: sell them.
Liberia was founded in 1847 by freed slaves from America's cotton plantations, It was Africa's first independent republic, but the settler elite denied civil rights to the indigenous people, creating a system of forced labour.
Although the island has some of the most fertile land in the Philippines, supporting vast pineapple and banana plantations, it is one of the poorest regions of the country, with the highest infant mortality and lowest literacy.
Because, by definition, the Maroons lived in settlements that were isolated from plantations, it is implausible to assume that plantation slaves learned Saramaccan from Maroons, although escapees from among the enslaved must have taken the plantation varieties into the Maroon colonies.
