News
Girvan DSFB Meeting
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT Girvan DSFB July Meeting The details are as follows:- Date of Meeting:- Thursday 16th July, 2015...
Newsletter
Our latest newsletter has now been published and can be downloaded by clicking the link below. Spring_summer 2015 newsletter If you would like to be added to our mailing list then send your email details to info@ayrshireriverstrust.org There are quite a few members...
More Doon Water Margin Improvements
After years of complaints about cattle accessing the River Doon at Holms Farm, with financial assistance from the River Doon DSFB and more than a little input from SEPA and the Trust, we managed to secure agreements to fence off two fields creating good buffer strips...
River Ayr Map on Sale
Good news, the River Ayr Map is now available to purchase on our web site. Just follow the link on the home page by clicking the button 'River Maps Prints'. This is a stunning map that Harriet Ellis has produced for us. Harriet is a local artist and supporter of the...
Bogton Loch
Bogton Loch beside Dalmellington was one place I'd never really visited until today. Of course I'd seen it and walked around some of it in the past, but I had no idea of depths or the really anything else other than it has a reasonably large pike population and some...
Japanese knotweed trial
Last July I blogged a post about a trial that I thought was worth undertaking on the hard to kill Japanese knotweed. The original post can be found here by following this link www.ayrshireriverstrust.org/blog/2014/07/31/japanese-knotweed-trial/ It was a very simple...
Giant hogweed control – update
Following up on the previous years control of non native invasive species, ART managed to secure a limited amount of funding to allow us to control Giant hogweed in Ayrshire. Control on the River Ayr catchment should be complete by the end of the week with only a few...
Farmed Salmon Escape
Last week, 16000 farmed salmon, each of around 10lbs in weight (4.5kg) escaped from a sea cage into the Kilbrannan Sound between Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. These fish may end up in Ayrshire's rivers and the last thing we need is them breeding with our wild salmon....
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
