plantations

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SD Guthrie and Genting Plantations have flagged potential charges, he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Moses Brown was born in 1738 into a leading family in the British colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Plantations, by contrast, had a very different energy distribution: food webs in canopies were less rich and less complex, and food webs in the soil were also changed.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

Plantations are young, homogenous, with trees tightly packed together, lacking the complexity and diversity of mature forests, whereas legacy forests are biodiverse and well on their way to becoming fully functioning old-growth forests.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

In 1655 a special committee for Jamaica was appointed, and about the same time a Committee for Foreign Plantations.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene