Highland Birchwoods - we're not just about birchwoods in the Highlands!
Highland Birchwoods was formed in 1992 as a partnership of the Forestry Commission, Scottish Natural Heritage, Highland Council and Highland & Islands Enterprise to promote best practice in the management of woodlands and forests to:
- improve conservation and biodiversity values
- deliver sustainable rural development
- enhance recreational, landscape and amenity facilities
Latest Project News...
HB and its partners praised for their outputs in the Developing Scots Pine project
Northern Periphery Programme 2007-2013 Outcomes of the PMC meeting in Joensuu 20th December 2011 The Programme Monitoring Committee met on 15th-16th December in Joensuu, Finland. The PMC congratulated the Developing Scots Pine project, the first NPP 2007-2013 project to have been successfully c...Cairngorm Mountain improvements in partnership with Highland Birchwoods
If you are visiting the Cairngorm Mountain then you will see or be using work undertaken through our "Action for Mountain Woodlands" project which was funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund. Trails; interpretation; tree planting by local school children; interpretation at the railw...Renewable business directory now available
Looking for a chimney sweep, firewood or woodchip supplier? Can't find a pellet supplier or a briquette producer, or perhaps looking for woodfuel processing equipment. Then why not utilise this searchable directory covering the Highlands, Moray and Argyll. Please click here....Latest Related News...
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Symposium
Highland Birchwoods will be attending the Renewable Heat Incentive Symposium on 20th January at the David Livi...
Frankincense tree facing uncertain future
A topical story
Frankincense - a traditional staple of the Christmas story - faces an uncertain future, accor...
£30.5 million funding for rural Scotland
Organic projects throughout Scotland have been given a cash boost thanks to the latest round of Rural Pr...
