by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 25, 2024 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Continuing with our Brockloch Burn updates within the Doon catchment, it is now mid summer and the best of the growing season is past. Barley and oats are ripening but perhaps a week or two behind normal due to our poor summer weather and temperatures, however, and...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 1, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
We had a nice wee job to do today to protect the riverside path along the Muck Water at Dalmellington in the Doon catchment where there’s always a steady stream of walkers. I’m pretty sure the landowner once told me that over 60,000 people a year walk this...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 21, 2024 | Conservation, General, Projects
The Brockloch Burn is a small tributary of the Chapelton Burn in the River Doon Catchment. It has been the focus of some extensive but necessary alteration in recent years to accommodate the new Maybole bypass. At the north end of the bypass, the roundabout that was...
by Stuart Brabbs | May 21, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
We’ve been busy planting trees at Netherton Burn on the Doon in the last couple of days assisted by regular volunteers Allan, Inna and Lee Anne. While it’s a bit late in the season for planting, we had a surplus of pot grown Alders and a number of bare...
by Stuart Brabbs | Apr 20, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
With financial support from the River Doon DSFB we commenced improvements on the Culroy Burn back in 2015. Several areas had been identified that suffered from accelerated erosion and severe nutrient inputs that the Trust staff considered solvable. We knew water...
by Struan Candlish | Apr 5, 2024 | Conservation, Events, General
This week we were very pleased to be joined by a group of volunteers from Thistle Credit Union. Despite being a fairly miserable, wet day we planted over 300 trees on the banks of the River Irvine upstream of its confluence with the Cessnock Water. These trees will...