Thanks for your interest Gallivanter. I can't speak for the woodland league but I can tell you the feeling is Coillte are not inclined to do this at the moment. They are committed to their model of quick turnover monoculture, clear-felled plantations. They have designated some woods around Dublin for biodiversity, but this is seen as a way of keeping environmentalists off their back. I suppose they believe that if the Dubliners can be pacified, sure no one will care what the rest of the country thinks. It will take serious public and political pressure for Coillte to actually change its overall forestry approach. Hopefully this will happen, despite the currently entrenched position of industry leaders. There is a greater awareness among many people of this issue and groups like Save Leitrim and Save Kerry are unlikely to disband until they see adaptation to increased mixed species and continuous cover forestry. "Ireland is one of the least forested countries in Europe with about 10.5% of its area under forest cover; however the majority of this is composed of non-native conifer species. These monoculture blocks of conifers account for 72.8% of the national forest estate, of this 52.4% is made up of just one species, Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) (Forestry-Service, 2014). While trees like Sitka spruce support biodiversity in their native distribution along the North-western seaboard of North America they support relatively low levels of biodiversity in Ireland. Only around 2% of the country is covered by what is termed native or semi-natural woodland, and much of this is highly fragmented and modified (Gallagher, et al., 2001)". Source: www.antaisce.org/sites/antaisce.org/files/the_environmental_integrity_of_irish_forestry_in_the_context_of_the_eus_effort_sharing_decision_2016_0.pdf