by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 1, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
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...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 21, 2024 | Conservation, General, Projects
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...
by Stuart Brabbs | May 21, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
We’ve been busy planting trees at Netherton Burn on the Doon in the last couple of days assisted by regular volunteers Allan, Inna and Lee Anne. While it’s a bit late in the season for planting, we had a surplus of pot grown Alders and a number of bare...
by Stuart Brabbs | Apr 20, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
With financial support from the River Doon DSFB we commenced improvements on the Culroy Burn back in 2015. Several areas had been identified that suffered from accelerated erosion and severe nutrient inputs that the Trust staff considered solvable. We knew water...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 24, 2023 | Conservation, General
Behind the scenes, work continues on the counter every week with our staff cleaning the equipment and downloading more data. Processing and verifying this data all takes a huge amount of time and while may not pick up every fish that goes through it yet, eventually we...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 18, 2023 | General
We completed the much delayed eDNA sampling at Loch Doon today but had the good fortune to have almost wind free conditions. Having virtually no wind was great from a safety perspective but in true Ayrshire fashion, there was a bit of wet weather to contend with but...