About US - who are the AIFC ?

	Chairman:   Seán Lenihan M.Sc.Agr.(For.)                  Kestrel Forestry Consultants Ltd                  Coolgreany, Co. Wexford.
	Secretary:  Donal Fitzpatrick B.Agr.Sc.(For.)                 Trees to Timber Ltd.                 Lifford, Ennis, Co. Clare.
	Treasurer:  Dermot Houlihan B.Agr.Sc.(For.)                 Timberland Forestry                 27 Bushy Park, Circular Road, Galway.

The Association of Irish Forestry Consultants (AIFC) represents the forest consultancy profession in Ireland with a membership that has a nationwide presence and a client base of over 1,500 forest owners.

To become a member of the AIFC applicants must satisfy strict criteria regarding qualifications, experience and professional indemnity insurance.  In addition in order to retain their membership  of the group consultants must undertake Continued Professional Development (CPD) via courses, field days, lectures, study tours etc. to attain a specified number of points annually.

AIFC members come from various backgrounds in forestry. 

Some of us have worked for the State forestry sector, others have worked for private forestry companies and some in forest education and research. We have pooled our experience and by drawing on the better aspects of our previous careers, listening to our customers and trying hard to be creative, we have succeeded in attracting satisfied customers all over Ireland. We now have 25% of the forest establishment market, and increasing numbers of plantation owners are engaging our members at the post-maintenance grant stage, to manage their plantations right up to first thinning and beyond. AIFC members can and do provide harvesting expertise/services at all stages of the rotation for both conifers and broadleaves. .

The AIFC are formally affiliated to the Society of Irish Foresters who are the representative body for the overall forestry profession in Ireland.