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Phase 2 of the Mauchline Burn restoration
Phase 2 of the Chalk River/Mauchline Burn restoration project is well underway. Continuing from last weeks green engineering, this week our fencer (Billy Semple) started erecting fences and gates. He takes great pride in his work and always leaves an excellent tight...
Reducing silt inputs and restoring fish populations to the Mauchline Burn, River Ayr catchment
We recently secured funding for restoration work on the Mauchline Burn (a.k.a. locally as The Chalk River) with the ultimate aim of reducing silt and nutrient inputs and restoring a functional trout and salmon population within this small watercourse. Our surveys...
Brockloch Project update
Continuing with our Brockloch Burn updates within the Doon catchment, it is now mid summer and the best of the growing season is past. Barley and oats are ripening but perhaps a week or two behind normal due to our poor summer weather and temperatures, however, and...
Electrofishing surveys commence July 2024
Each year perform our timed electrofishing surveys during the same weeks each season. Timed surveys enable us to rapidly assess spawning success and survival from the previous winter's salmon spawning activity. These are salmon fry surveys and while we catch other...
Preventing a path from disappearing into a burn
We had a nice wee job to do today to protect the riverside path along the Muck Water at Dalmellington in the Doon catchment where there's always a steady stream of walkers. I'm pretty sure the landowner once told me that over 60,000 people a year walk this path. I...
Case Study: Diffuse pollution on the Brockloch Burn
The Brockloch Burn is a small tributary of the Chapelton Burn in the River Doon Catchment. It has been the focus of some extensive but necessary alteration in recent years to accommodate the new Maybole bypass. At the north end of the bypass, the roundabout that was...
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