The lands of the O'Neills and even of loyal Gaelic lords were declared forfeit in 1569, and, in a wave of enthusiasm for colonization, various questionable adventurers were permitted to attempt substantial plantations in Munster, Leinster, and Ulster.
He married a local woman and began to accumulate what became a number of substantial plantations.
I later deconstructed this gestalt to be a cocktail of the warm, butter-colored walls, dark hardwood floors, substantial plantation shutters, 10-foot ceilings, crown moldings, wrought iron balusters, granite counters and harmonious marriage of exterior and interior architecture.
But four years later, in 2005, noted human rights lawyer Terry Collingsworth filed a lawsuit against the company and Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, alleging that the companies gave substantial assistance to plantation owners who used forced child labour.
Hawaii never was much of a railroad state, except for its substantial collection of plantation railroads, none still serving that original purpose.
One substantial opportunity for plantation forestry lies in the ability to use improved domesticated tree varieties or even genetically modified (GM) trees, specifically designed for a respective end-use, e.g. low-lignin trees for pulp and paper or saccharification (bioethanol production), or high-lignin trees for solid wood combustion.
Globally, there are ca. 15 million hectares of Douglas-fir plantations with substantial areas occurring in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Australia and western North America (Hermann and Lavender 1999).
Poplars are the dominant tree species in many forest ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere and are of substantial economic value in plantation forestry.
Plantations cover a substantial amount of Earth's terrestrial surface and this area is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades.
The widespread destruction of mature forests in China has led to massive ecological degradation, counteracted in recent decades by substantial efforts to promote forest plantations and protect secondary forest ecosystems.
Finally, our analysis showed that C sequestration in plantations may be substantial and thus can help to slow down the future increase in atmospheric CO2.
