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

15/07/2010

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

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

17/02/2010

The spring meeting 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. Click to download the Meeting Programme: BIHIP Spring Meeting 2010 – Programme

BIHIP Newsletter - Issue 01 (January 2010)

21/01/2010

The first issue of BIHIP Newsletter can be now downloaded from this website. Click here to download [(2.9 Mb) click4_pdf_icon].

These are some of the contents from Issue 01:

  • Chairman's report (An overview of BIHIP’s activities in 2009 by Peter Savill)

  • Species Group Reports (by each species group Secretary; compiled by Jo Clark)

  • BIHIP— the Irish Dimension (report from continuous progress from BIHIP's programme in Ireland; by John Fennessy & Michael Carey)

  • BIHIP membership (Species Group Members 2010)

  • AOD, COD & SOD (Notes on Oak Decline from a Forest of Dean site meeting; by Bede Howell)

  • Assessing timber quality in Cherry (by Karen Russell and David Jenkins)

  • Improved seed for ash (by Jo Clark)

  • Breeding Strategies (a review of BIHIP’s Breeding Strategies)

  • Student abstracts (The effect of exotic oak phenotypes on an associated community of herbivorous insects by Jennifer Peters, University of York. Vigour, form and timing of budburst in Broadleaved provenance trials by Ed Clark, University of Wales, Bangor. Assessing the Silvicultural Form of Young Oak Trees at Breeding Seedling Orchards by Nick Evans, Imperial College, London. Is open-pollinated seed appropriate for establishing an oak breeding seedling orchard? by Ed Eaton, Imperial College, London)

  • Publications (a list of the most recent publications from BIHIP members and associates).

BIHIP Annual General Meeting and Field Trip

23/10/2008

This year, the 2008 AGM and field trip is being held on Thursday October 23rd 2008 at Forest Research’s Northern Research Station at Roslin, near Edinburgh. Click here for a map. Click the link [(10 kb) click4_pdf_icon] to see the more details about the plan and time schedule for the day, with coffee at 9.45 for a 10.15 start.

The field trip will be to Dalkeith, to visit one of the oak BSOs at Dalkeith. After that, we will have a chance to see the clonal orchards produced by the birch group. Please contact Jason Hubert if you would like to attend.

Click the link [(31 kb) ] to download the minutes from last year's AGM at the Northmoor Trust.

BIHIP 2007 Report for Donors released

Nov-2007

The 2007 Report for Donors to the British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme, funded by Donations from the British and Irish Hardwoods Trust, Coford and Forestry Commission is now available to the public. [Click here to see it or download it].

BIHIP Annual General Meeting

01/11/2007

BIHIP celebrated their Xth annual meeting at the Northmoor Trust headquarters in Oxfordshire. Click here [(31 kb) ] to download the minutes.

Click here to download the minutes of the meeting

BIHIP launches its new website

18/06/2007