A wet afternoon on the Doon
What started as quite a nice day ended up with the team soaked through as the rain came down at Dalmellington. We had a busy day though, looking at burns around the town and concentrating on the East side of the catchment where most of the past and present mining...Rivers Conference
We have been asked to present a 40 minute talk on river management at a conference to be held in Grangemouth Town Hall on the 9th October. Our presentation will focus on Integrated Catchment Management, touching on many issues such as biodiversity, invasive species,...Loch Doon disappointment
We failed to find salmon fry or parr when we electrofished the Carrick Lane and Garple Water today. This was disappointing as the Doon DSFB hatchery has previously stocked the area until 2009 with fry and we had hoped that a self sustaining population would develop....A New Burn for the Trust to Survey
After lunch, we headed to an unnamed burn near Rankinston at the top of the Coyle system. This is a cracking wee burn that doesn’t appear to suffer from overgrazing or diffuse pollution. Conductivity was low (for Ayrshire) at 94 micro siemens and this indicates...Burn O’ Need bridge repairs
I was alerted to bridge repairs underway on the Burn O’ Need last friday by the landowners at Wealth of Waters. He was concerned that the deep pool downstream of the bridge had been infilled and left a shallow torrent. Having ‘had a look’ in the pool...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
