British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme

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Updated 15/07/2010

AGM (Autumn meeting) 21st October 2010:
Seed Stand Management

The next Autumn Meeting and Annual General Meeting is to be held on October the 21st 2010 at
The Royal Hotel, Palace Pound, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5HZ

We will discuss Seed Stand Management. A new website with the BIHT logo will be launched there and then. The meeting is open to everyone. Download here the Meeting Programme: BIHIP Autumn Meeting 2010 – Programme

British and Irish Hardwoods Trust

The British and Irish Hardwoods Trust (BIHT) was created to provide funding for the British and Irish Hardwood Improvement Programme (BIHIP), to improve and increase the stock of our broadleaved trees. BIHIP is now called BIHT.

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.

 

 

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BIHIP and BIHT are now united under the same name: British and Irish Hardwoods Trust (BIHT). This was decided in the AGM in May 2010.

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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