by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 15, 2016 | Conservation, General, Invasives
(See earlier posts from April 2016 if you would like to read more on this erosion control) After the volunteers and Trust’s effort to try and bring some improvements to the eroding banks at Kilkerran on the Girvan earlier this Spring, Muir and I revised...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 19, 2016 | Conservation, General
We are still continuing with erecting riparian fencing as and when our fencer is available. Riparian fencing can make all the difference to water and habitat quality and the images below illustrate just how effective it can be. By excluding livestock, bank stability...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 13, 2016 | Conservation, General
The Culroy Burn has been the focus of much attention in an effort to reduce the sediment entering the Doon and improve spawning success in the burn. There’s always been some difficulty getting landowner support for one stretch in particular but after a very...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 8, 2016 | Conservation, General
We received design drawings of a rock ramp fish pass for consultation from Scottish Water today and nipped up to Cheapside Street in Kilmarnock to cast fresh eyes over the weir and drawings. We first highlighted the issues over the partial collapse of this weir when...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 6, 2016 | Conservation, General
In keeping with other work we are doing at the moment, Muir and I met with a landowner this morning to see what we could suggest to stabilise rapidly eroding river banks. The site we visited was on the Greenock Water, an important tributary of the Ayr. For years the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 5, 2016 | Conservation, General
Following up on the SEPA’s demonstration event of last Autumn where we attended to offer support to SEPA’s engineering team and advice to farmers over green engineering techniques, Muir and I revisited the Upper Irvine site which continues to suffer...