Bogton Loch
Bogton Loch beside Dalmellington was one place I’d never really visited until today. Of course I’d seen it and walked around some of it in the past, but I had no idea of depths or the really anything else other than it has a reasonably large pike...Japanese knotweed trial
Last July I blogged a post about a trial that I thought was worth undertaking on the hard to kill Japanese knotweed. The original post can be found here by following this link www.ayrshireriverstrust.org/blog/2014/07/31/japanese-knotweed-trial/ It was a very simple...Giant hogweed control – update
Following up on the previous years control of non native invasive species, ART managed to secure a limited amount of funding to allow us to control Giant hogweed in Ayrshire. Control on the River Ayr catchment should be complete by the end of the week with only a few...Farmed Salmon Escape
Last week, 16000 farmed salmon, each of around 10lbs in weight (4.5kg) escaped from a sea cage into the Kilbrannan Sound between Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. These fish may end up in Ayrshire’s rivers and the last thing we need is them breeding with our wild...Diffuse pollution
Again on the Ayr, we visited the Dippol Burn near Ochiltree to see what condition the habitat was in. Previously this burn’s fish population has been surveyed by ART and never a trout was found over several years although pollution tolerant species such as Stone...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
