by Luke Park | 21 Feb, 2020 | Blog
It’s difficult to summarise three years at the Forth Rivers Trust in a single blog post, especially when it’s the Friday afternoon of your last week and the lure of a cold, frothy pint of ale at the neighbouring pub is unusually persistent. So, I have...
by David Eastwood | 11 Feb, 2020 | Blog
I was privileged to be involved at the beginning of a new community drive to tidy up their local area. The main motivator on the scene in Armadale was a very inspiring local lad by the name of Finlay. He was compelled to start the group from his experiences litter...
by Nim Kibbler | 4 Feb, 2020 | Blog
The project has been mooching about some of the Almond’s wee burns of late. Burn’s day (25th Jan) fell on a Saturday this year and so we thought it was the ideal opportunity to pay homage to some lesser loved burns. Two of our young community leader,...
by Luke Park | 30 Jan, 2020 | Blog
The concrete bridge apron under the A71 on the Harwood water, Polbeth, was highlighted as a barrier to fish migration after looking into mitigating the larger barrier about 500m upstream – Limefield falls. A low-cost baffle (LCB) fish pass was deemed the best option...
by Luke Park | 9 Jan, 2020 | Blog, Funding Your Project
The Friends of Polkemmet group have been carrying out small maintenance tasks within the park to improve the appearance of the park. We applied for a River Life Project Package grant to deliver a willow spiling project along the river embankment. Willow Spiling is a...
by Minty Donald | 29 Dec, 2019 | Blog
‘I am prickly and hidden in the tree I fell from’. ‘I wake you up and give you a kick. I am hidden under a piece of wood’. Can you guess what these descriptions are referring to? They are just two of the inventive and cryptic clues that members of Polbeth Harwood...
