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Stewarton Hogweed
The contractor and I had a look at Stewarton area where the GHW was particularly rampant. Although a few plants have been missed or not responded to the chemical yet, overall I'd say that we were really pleased with the results. Complete Weed Control will be back in...
Honours Project
The Water Vole opportunity has now been taken. Anyone interested in Invasive Weeds knows what to do.
Honours Project opportunity.
We are about to reintroduce water voles to two burns in Ayrshire and there is an opportunity for a 4th year honours student to get involved and undertake valuable research for their dissertation project. We are also delivering a major invasive weed control project and...
Giant Hogweed Upper River Irvine
Brian and I were out spraying Giant Hogweed on the Galston Club water on thursday evening. We didn't find many hogweed plants at all and perhaps only 2 or 3 that would have flowered this season which indicates that last years control was highly effective and all...
Hillhead Primary pupils study life in Kilmarnock Water
Hillhead Primary, Kilmarnock, recently completed the “Salmon in the Classroom” project delivered by Ayrshire Rivers Trust. The P4 class pupils incubated and hatched salmon eggs sourced from the local river in an aquarium in the classroom before releasing the alevins...
Invasive Weed Control – Progress report.
We have now completed control of Giant Hogweed on the Lower Irvine, Annick, Garnock and the Coastal Burns. The Lower Ayr is virtually complete with a few areas needing a quick re visit by the contractor. The Upper Ayr and Irvine are both underway and should be...
Himalayan balsam
Last summer with the help of volunteers from BTCV we hand pulled the Himalayan balsam in the Chapleton Burn, the source of the problem in the Doon. I went back today to see if there was much growing this year. It was very encouraging to find that there appears to be...
Doonholm Dam in higher water
The river was running at 1'2" this afternoon but the entire flow was still flowing down through the breach in the dam. The dip in the water level where it plunged down through the breach was very noticeable to the eye but it doesn't show in the photos. I thought that...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
