At Laggan near Newtonmore, efforts were made to prevent a major fire re-igniting a forest plantation badly damaged on Thursday night.

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Doss suggests that innovation is more like a rain forest, than a plantation.

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William Tyler, a descendant of President John Tyler, runs Sherwood Forest, the family plantation on the James River in Charles City, Va.

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Liberal Democrat peer and chairman of the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership Lord Redesdale announced that he was willing to lead a "community-based bid" to acquire Kielder Forest, the largest plantation in England.

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But a development company owned by Malaysians claims it has a valid lease and permits to clear-cut the forest, and establish the plantation.

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But aerial photographs show that over half the earmarked forest is unoccupied, much of it immature plantation paid for with World Bank loans.

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