News
Geologist help required
It is not unusual to find green rocks lying in riverbeds in parts of Ayrshire but I was never sure what it is called. Also is the greenish rock often seen in the Girvan catchment the same type of rock that I found recently in North Ayrshire? The green coloured boulder...
Spraying Course
After three days of training 8th-10th March, the assessments have now begun. Myself (Gillian Murray), Tom Campbell (Dreghorn AC) and Sean Connolly (Annbank AC) have set the standard with passing all three exams (PA1, PA6 and PA6AW). Five further volunteers will be...
Water Vole Breeding
Gilllian Murray and Stuart Brabbs had a flying visit to Devon last week to see our water vole breeding program in action. During the course of the visit to the Derek Gow Consultancy, we gained valuable training in animal husbandry and handling the voles which will be...
Away Day
At the start of this week, ART's trustees and staff had an 'away day' to the Kirkton Inn in Dalrymple with the purpose of developing forward thinking and new strategies for the Trust in coming years. Brian Shaw reviewed the first 10 years of the Trust and progress...
RAFTS annual conference 2011
The Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS) (in association with the Association of Salmon Fishery Boards) annual conference will take place on Wednesday 23rd March 2011 at The Battleby Institute, Redgorton, nr Perth. The conference theme this year is 'The...
Tackle in the Attic rods for sale
We were donated a collection of rods through our 'Tackle in the Attic' scheme. We are selling the rods through ebay where 11 rods are currently listed all starting at £0.99. Auctions will end on Sunday 20th Feb in the evening. Have a look and see if there is anything...
Ayrshire rivercams
The good news is that the Stinchar and Girvan webcams are now available live at http://www.farsondigital.co.uk/stinchar/live.php and http://www.farsondigital.co.uk/girvan/live.php. Hopefully these webcams will be an invaluable resource for anglers or others interested...
Ponesk Burn diversion
There was a lot of coal in the Muirkirk area and it has been mined on and off for many many years. Scottish Coal have a large opencast mine in the area at Spireslack which has exploited most of the easily accessible deposits. One of the remaining large deposits lies...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
