by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 28, 2020 | Conservation, Events
This morning we headed to the Girvan catchment to see how our green engineering at Kilkerran was holding up. We installed several different techniques at Kilkerran to stabilise two massive erosion points that each stretched over 100m. At the time some suggested that...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 15, 2020 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
It’s a very windy day out there but we made a trip to the Dusk and Lugton Waters this morning looking for potential green engineering sites. The Garnock Connections Landscape Partnership Scheme is a suite of 25 projects restoring a network of wildlife habitats...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 27, 2019 | Events
ART will hold heir AGM on Wednesday the 4th December at 5.00pm in their office at Auchincruive. This meeting will be open to members only. Please let us know if you intend to come as seating is limited and space tight but we should be able to accommodate those that...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 16, 2019 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
Last week we payed a second visit to some of the pupils at Doonfoot Primary School. With the River Doon raging an in river electrofishing demonstration unfortunately was not a possibility. Rather than let the pupils miss out on getting to see fish up close we managed...
by Struan Candlish | Aug 2, 2019 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General, Invasives
We have received a report that a non-native Pacific pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha has been caught on the lower River Irvine. This has still to be confirmed but if you are confident you have caught a pink salmon then the fish should be dispatched humanely and...
by Struan Candlish | Jul 16, 2019 | Conservation, Events, Invasives
Today we were faced with the unenviable job of dealing with giant hogweed flowers that had set seed at Tarbolton Landfill. The land surrounding the landfill is criss crossed with old field drains and ditches that have the potential to transport seed into the Fail and...