Tree Donations for Riverbank Conservation

A huge thanks to two of our supporters, Gilbert Browne from Girvan and Fiona Sinclair from Dunure who have over the years donated trees and shrubs to the Trust for our conservation work on our rivers. Fiona expertly removes native trees and shrubs which have...

Stottencleugh update

Further to our previous post over the condition of the Stottencleugh Burn at Glenbuck, we have been actively catching broodstock trout that enter the burn to spawn. They have been few and far between but this evening we captured 4 pair and stripped and fertilised the...

The Legacy of Mining

I nipped up to Glenbuck yesterday to check on the trout spawning that takes place in the Stottencleugh Burn; the very source of the River Ayr that flows into Glenbuck Loch. This burn has been severely impacted by historic mine water upwelling from old shafts for...