RiverLife Blogs
Here you can find all the blog posts from throughout the RiverLife project
Kids activity packs a success during the summer restrictions
Kids activity packs a success during the summer restrictions With one of our regular graphics...
Nature based art projects for communities trapped in Tier 4 zones
Nature based art projects for communities trapped in Tier 4 zones As staff had had to consider...
Thousands got busy with their colouring pencils during lock down
Thousands got busy with their colouring pencils during lock down When lock down hit we responded...
New community co-designed artworks installed along the River Almond
New community co-designed artworks installed along the River Almond As part of the final year of...
Cleaning up Harwood Water with West Lothian Litter Pickers
The RiverLife small grants scheme has been used for all kinds of projects across the communities...
Welcoming Back our Fish
We're super excited to launch our new community art project called Welcoming Back our Fish. ...
World Fish Migration Day – Baffles
World Fish Migration Day - Baffles Road and rail culverts and bridge aprons also impede migration...
World Fish Migration Day – Howden Rock Ramp
World Fish Migration Day - Howden Rock Ramp On the main stem of a river large scale interventions...
World Fish Migration Day – Barriers to Fish Migration
World Fish Migration Day - Barriers to Fish Migration Man-made weirs (known as barriers to fish...
World Fish Migration Day – Eels
World Fish Migration Day - Eels Next up for World Fish Migration Day we thought we would talk...
World Fish Migration Day – Wild Salmon Watch Walk, Falls of Leny
World Fish Migration Day - Wild Salmon Watch Walk, Falls of Leny Unfortunately due to current...
World Fish Migration Day – Migratory Fish Pressures
World Fish Migration Day - Migratory Fish Pressures Today is World Fish Migration Day so we are...
Forth Rivers Trust INNS Control 2020
Forth Rivers Trust INNS Control 2020 With the first early morning frost comes the end of the Forth...
Family River Resources
Family River Resources - October Holiday Activities October holidays are fast approaching and the...
Getting Out and About
This month I’ve been able to leave the wee home office behind here and there, as the staff have...
Looking for Eels at Fair-a-Far Weir
I’ve been spending a lot of time working in the home office recently, as many of our normal...
The Blue Gym
Have you heard of Green Gym? I’m sure you have, maybe you don’t know what it refers to, but you’ve...
You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone
It might sound a bit dramatic, after all fishing has only been put on hold during “lockdown”, it...
Nature Photography and Mental Health
We’ve been taking submissions for our Resilient Rivers Photography Exhibition throughout May, and...
Lockdown on the Lyne
Lockdown has been a period filled with highs and lows. For many of us it has brought uncertainty,...
Resilient Rivers Photography Competition
Diana Toncheva The RiverLife team, like almost everyone else, have recently gone through...
Revisiting Home Water
I guess like everyone else this lockdown, working from home, self-isolating pandemic that we...
Considerate forager thoughts
Where I live on the river Esk system (where I’m confined to during the 2020 Covid-19 lock-down)...
‘Our’ Falls – keeping busy with new signs for Polbeth
Like many others, we (Minty Donald and Nick Millar) are trying to find ways continue our work...
Amphibians of the Forth
Amphibians of the Forth This weekend, as part of the RiverLife Almond & Avon, Jacquelyn, Amy...
River Almond & Avon Virtual Trails
River Almond & Avon Virtual Trails As everyone is stuck indoors or more local than normal...
RiverLife Team Promote Sustainable Development Goals with West Lothian College
On March 11th West Lothian College held its first Sustainability Summit to raise awareness and...
Forth Rivers Trust Response to Covid – 19
Forth Rivers Trust Response to Covid 19 (Coronavirus) Most of our volunteering events are outdoors...
Walking on the wild side: remembering Kenn and the salmon
Walking on the wild side: remembering Kenn and the salmon by Iain Reid A walk by the river can...
Fish in the Class comes to a close for Muckhart Primary School
Fish in the Class comes to a close for Muckhart Primary School It's always a busy time of year for...
Binny Craig – a windy walk with SRUC
We thought we would do something a little different – although, granted, the RiverLife project can...
Tatty bye
It's difficult to summarise three years at the Forth Rivers Trust in a single blog post,...
Tidy your Burn on Burns day – Armadale
I was privileged to be involved at the beginning of a new community drive to tidy up their local...
What’s in the local burn?
The project has been mooching about some of the Almond's wee burns of late. Burn's day (25th Jan)...
LCB fish pass installation
The concrete bridge apron under the A71 on the Harwood water, Polbeth, was highlighted as a...
Willow Spiling with Friends of Polkemmet Country Park
The Friends of Polkemmet group have been carrying out small maintenance tasks within the park to...
Hide and seek: exploring Limefield Falls with Polbeth Harwood Parish Church Sunday Club
‘I am prickly and hidden in the tree I fell from’. ‘I wake you up and give you a kick. I am hidden...
Remembering ‘Our’ Falls
This striking wintery image of the frozen Limefield Falls was one of three photos kindly sent to...
Volunteering Highlights
We have had a lot of volunteering activity over 2019 both in RiverLife and in the Trust, with some...
A ‘treasure’ hunt in Polbeth: mapping and discovering with Polbeth After School Club
Where do you find mushrooms in Polbeth? ‘The Scotmid shop!’ was the prompt reply from one of the...
Rivers are Dynamic
Minds can be moulded at any age, and we try to show this by dusting off the river table and honing...
Final cyanotypes workshops – The Almond’s Industrial Heritage
Artist’s Annie and Morvern held the last in the series of creative workshops on Saturday,...
West Lothian Ageing Well Walkers
I have been fortunate enough to join up with the West Lothian Ageing Well Walking Group –...
Cyanotypes – Painting with Light
The new interpretative artworks which will be installed at the three new fish pass sites along the...
Final explorer walk – River Almond
The sun shone down on us for the last in our series of Explorer Walks. Artists Morvern Odling and...
Official West Lothian Opening of Howden Rock Ramp
September 17th, 2019, marked the official West Lothian Council opening of the Howden Rock Ramp....
Volunteer Electrofishing
Volunteer My Electrofishing Experience by Elspeth Smith I was able to get into the electrofishing...
Explorer walk two – Howden Rock Ramp
On a drizzly October day a group gathered for the second Explorer Walk on the River Almond.Artists...
Unblocktober and RiverRubbish: Raising Awareness
Raising awareness of environmental issues is always a difficult balance between action on the...
Unblocktober – Message from RiverLife
It's #Unblocktober this month so we are raising awareness of the impacts to the environment from...
