River Doon Green Engineering supported by the Wild Fisheries Fund.
Earlier this year we undertook quite an extensive section of green engineering on the River Doon near Waterside. This is work that is being funded by the Wild Fisheries Fund and the Doon District Salmon Fishery Board. The aim of this work is to reduce the...Podcasting with the Farm Advisory Service.
A couple of weeks ago I had the please of speaking with Alex Pirie from the Farm Advisory Service for his podcast ‘Thrill of the Hill’ the title of our episode being ‘When the Rivers Run Free – Restoring our Waterways’. This is our third...Japanese knotweed control on the Stinchar.
We were on the River Stinchar yesterday undertaking a control programme for Japanese knotweed. Annually the Board collects a levy from anglers/angling clubs and syndicates which is then used to facilitate management, projects and monitoring across the catchment to the...Autumn surveys continue.
No longer can we call our field work ‘summer surveys’ as the beginning of September saw us officially enter into autumn – a slightly depressing though as only a minute ago it seemed like we were in spring with the rest of the year still ahead of us....Purclewan Burn Electrofishing
The week before last we were undertaking surveys to assess salmon production across some of the burns in the Doon catchment. One of these surveys was in the upper Purclewan Burn which drains Martnaham Loch and enters the River Doon just downstream of Dalrymple. The...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
