Rivers Conference
We have been asked to present a 40 minute talk on river management at a conference to be held in Grangemouth Town Hall on the 9th October. Our presentation will focus on Integrated Catchment Management, touching on many issues such as biodiversity, invasive species,...Loch Doon disappointment
We failed to find salmon fry or parr when we electrofished the Carrick Lane and Garple Water today. This was disappointing as the Doon DSFB hatchery has previously stocked the area until 2009 with fry and we had hoped that a self sustaining population would develop....A New Burn for the Trust to Survey
After lunch, we headed to an unnamed burn near Rankinston at the top of the Coyle system. This is a cracking wee burn that doesn’t appear to suffer from overgrazing or diffuse pollution. Conductivity was low (for Ayrshire) at 94 micro siemens and this indicates...Burn O’ Need bridge repairs
I was alerted to bridge repairs underway on the Burn O’ Need last friday by the landowners at Wealth of Waters. He was concerned that the deep pool downstream of the bridge had been infilled and left a shallow torrent. Having ‘had a look’ in the pool...Mixed results from the Coyle
We visited the Water of Coyle today to look at a couple of sites. One was new and the other hadn’t been surveyed for some time so I was keen to see how things were doing. The first site was at Coyle Water Fishery and included a variety of habitats, ideal for...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
