Madam, - John J. Jackson (March 11th) extols the environmental benefits of Irish forestry and its worthiness for being "fast-tracked". Forestry projects would be a great deal more beneficial, however, if they used Irish native species instead of environmentally questionable conifers from North America.
Unlike Ireland, whose annual planting is made up of 80 per cent of such conifers, other countries in the EU plant mainly native species. - Yours, etc,
RAY MONAHAN, Castlegregory, Co Kerry.