by Stuart Brabbs | Apr 3, 2012 | General
The water levels have been low and stable for a week or two and I & H Borland have been back in the river trying to complete the concrete works before the weather breaks. Progress has been good in the last week or so and weather permitting, this week should see...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 28, 2012 | General
Following up to my earlier post of 20/02/12 regarding the accelerated erosion on the Lugar in which I made a flippant comment about the Trust needing to pay for a helicopter ride to allow me to view the current situation…..a few weeks ago David Campbell very...
by Janette Galbraith | Mar 26, 2012 | General
ART held their first ever Quiz Night at Ayr Rugby Club last Friday evening. It was compered by Mr Wallace Milligan, who was ably assisted by his lovely wife Ruth. Gillian McIntyre, the Trust’s Biologist, welcomed everyone with a short speech on the work of the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 15, 2012 | General, Invasives
It is reassuring to know that ART has been making a name for themselves in Invasive weed control. ART was invited to talk at Falkirk Stadium on the subject of developing strategic approaches to controlling invasive weeds. The audience consisted of both the Commercial...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 13, 2012 | General
On the way back to the office this evening, Gillian dropped me at Alistair Fleming’s Garage in Ayr to collect our new Citroen Berlingo van. After a brief run through of the controls etc and a few signatures, Richard Henderson from Fleming’s handed over the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 13, 2012 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
The plan this morning was to start where we finished last night and fish the last pool at the top of the stretch to complete the first once over. This didn’t happen as we decided to re fish the entire stretch again from the bottom up and concentrate on the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 12, 2012 | Conservation, Electrofishing, fishing, General
DAY ONE We kept our fingers and everything else crossed over the weekend for dry weather. For once things went in our favour and when we arrived at the Kilmarnock Water this morning to undertake a very public fish rescue, we were relieved to see the river flowing...
by Stuart Brabbs | Mar 8, 2012 | General
We have to build 25 mink rafts and could do with a wee bit of help to complete this quickly. I’m planning to build the rafts in the workshop at SAC on Saturday or Sunday. Anyone with time on their hands this weekend that can use a panel saw, please get in touch....