Culroy Burn at Culroy revisited.
We fenced this section of the burn a couple of years ago and used green engineering to stabilise what was very rapid and severe erosion. This was driven by livestock accessing the burn and margins and led to instability and loss of tonnes of soil from the field. Our...River Stinchar and Duisk River – Balsam Bashes 23/07/2017 2pm
ART secured limited funding from Tescos ‘Bags Of Help’ fund to help control Invasive Non Native Plant Species (INNPS) on the Stinchar and Girvan catchments this year. This funding will allow us to control Himalayan Balsam and Japanese Knotweed on both...Funding success for barrier easement on two tributaries of the Irvine.
Great news for the Irvine catchment ART has now secured adequate funding to improve two barriers in the upper catchment. We managed to secure the necessary funding despite many rejections. Our thanks to East Ayrshire Renewable Energy Fund, Nineveh Trust, Darvel...Loch Doon Fish Pass Counter
On Tuesday we were at Loch Doon to carry out a clean of the Vaki fish counter. Cleaning the Vaki ensures the scanning plates which produce the silhouettes and counts the number fish are not obscured with algae which can grow on the plate surface or debris such as...Aerial surveys reveal historic and recent problems
Looking at rivers and burns from above can be revealing and help us to understand why certain problems occur. This video of the middle Girvan illustrates some but not all the problems we see. It was shot with our drone while looking for problems that we can rectify...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
