by Amelia | Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Heading upstream – from our meeting point in Morrisons carpark – across the adjacent wildflower meadow, our regular volunteer group have often found themselves sliding and stumbling down a steep slope before accessing the tarmac path below. Â This month,...
by Amy Fergusson | Friday, September 20, 2019
RiverLife has been busy lately. Training our volunteers is an important part of our Project and, at Forth Rivers Trust, we have wholeheartedly jumped in these last few months to train our committed volunteers in skills such as Electrofishing, Pesticides application...
by Amelia | Thursday, August 22, 2019
Willow Spiling:  a fantastic natural and sustainable way to tackle the problems of river bank erosion.   The Friends of Almondell & Calderwood Country Park were concerned about erosion endangering the integrity of the riverside path in 3 different places.   The...
by Amelia | Friday, August 2, 2019
With the sun shining down on us, we made our way to the site. On the river Almond, near the canal feeder weir, we spot our target – a stand of the invasive alien invader Himalayan balsam. We are here to end this flower’s dominance on this patch of the riverbank. Armed...
by Amy Fergusson | Thursday, July 4, 2019
 sThis is the right time of year to head out on the banks of your local river and find some Himalayan balsam. This invasive plant species uses watercourses as a transport corridor for seeds, so you will find them lining the banks of rivers big and small. When these...
by Amelia | Thursday, July 4, 2019
Today, RiverLife volunteers propagated around 250 cuttings using suckers from wild aspen root cuttings collected from the Pentland hills back in March. You can read about that day here: https://www.river-life.org.uk/aspen-root-collection/. After collecting the root...
