SHARING OPTIONS: The scheme, launched in August of last year, aims to fund the creation of new native woodlands on publicly owned lands. Just one public body has applied and been approved to the Department of Agriculture’s Creation of Woodland on Public Lands Scheme. The scheme, launched in August of last year, aims to fund the creation of new native woodlands on publicly owned lands. Iarnród Éireann was the first public body to engage with the scheme and have been approved an afforestation licence for an area of 4.33ha in Co Roscommon near the rail line at Carrick-on-Shannon in late 2020, a Department spokesperson told the