by Struan Candlish | Apr 10, 2025 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
With the tree planting season about over until next winter, we have a couple of pressing jobs that must be completed this week. Hopefully the forecast rain at the weekend will help them establish quickly as they burst into life but we will water them anyway as a...
by Struan Candlish | Apr 3, 2025 | Events, Green engineering, Projects
Last week we were joined on the Mauchline Burn by the Dunbia Group who donated £1000 towards planting trees across the project area. Despite it being a very dreich morning we planted around 150 trees with the group which was a massive boost to the burn. Ian and our...
by Struan Candlish | Dec 6, 2024 | Conservation, General, Green engineering
This time of years see the staff spending more time in front of computers writing reports, developing funding applications with less time spent on the banks of our rivers and burns. This is before and after of some green engineering on the Muck Water at Dalmellington....
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 13, 2024 | Conservation, Green engineering, Projects
We recently secured funding for restoration work on the Mauchline Burn (a.k.a. locally as The Chalk River) with the ultimate aim of reducing silt and nutrient inputs and restoring a functional trout and salmon population within this small watercourse. Our surveys...
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 | 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...