ThinkGIS: Westcountry Rivers Trust helps diverse groups achieve consensus
One of the largest not-for-profit rivers trusts in the UK, the Westcountry Rivers Trust is driving the implementation of critical river conservation schemes by helping large groups of stakeholders to agree priority programmes. It uses ArcGIS Online to clarify the...
Comment: Resilient catchment and communities
Dr Laurence Couldrick, CEO of Westcountry Rivers Trust, discusses catchment resilience There has been a lot of talk about drought in the past few weeks and whilst it has been the driest winter in 20 years our increasingly variable weather patterns are now part of the...
Garramarsh needs you!
After some major flooding, on the river Mole (in North Devon), at the tail end of last year, the levels dropped and revealed swaths of detritus washed down. Macabre Christmas Trees line the bank as shredded black silage wrap hang from the branches. On a gloomy day it...
Comment: Environmental Leadership
After a BBC report that the Defra 25 year vision ‘Lacks policies’ and ‘may not even be published’, Dr Laurence Couldrick, CEO of Westcountry Rivers Trust, asks: is that the real problem? If you look at any book on Leadership it will probably quote the African proverb...
Fish Survey Results 2016
Westcountry Rivers Trust undertake Fry Index Fish Surveys on a catchment-wide basis in order to assess the ‘first year’ (0+ cohort) of salmonids within the river system/s. By looking at salmon and trout we are surveying the fish most sensitive to environmental change....
Celebrating the Year of the Yeo
Our monthly celebrations of the 'Year of the Yeo' continued last week with a 'Creative Writing and Storytelling' event down by the river. In the fantastic setting of Yeovil County Park, we were joined by local author and storyteller Beth Webb, who read us...