British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme

BIHIP

British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme

Welcome to the BIHIP website!

The British and Irish Hardwood Improvement Programme was set up in 1991 to promote and improve the quality of our home-grown hardwoods. Our aim is to:

Locate and secure material from the very best trees across Great Britain and Ireland
To produce seedling and clonal orchards to provide high quality seed for the timber industry
To carry our research in to the genetics and silviculture of trees that produce high quality timber
To promote high quality timber production as a component of a sustainable forest industry.

The species we currently work with are ash, birch, cherry, oak, sweet chestnut, sycamore and walnut.

News!!

AGM (Spring meeting) in Northern Ireland, 26th and 27th May 2010

Updated 31/01/2010

The Annual General Meeting this year is to be kindly hosted by Jim McAdam, Director of the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Loughgall, Co. Armagh in N. Ireland. We will be seeing their agroforestry programme (ash and sycamore), some work on a root-production method for oak, and a clonal cherry trial. The meeting is open to everyone.

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The British and Irish Hardwoods Trust exists to
provide funding for BIHIP, to improve and
increase the stock of our broadleaved trees.

Any donation you can make will help pay for our
research associated costs. Click here to find out more about BIHT and contact details.

2007 Report for Donors