We had a successful evening in Midsomer Norton with the Town Council and local community discussing our new Our Wonderful Wellow project. The event in Midsomer Norton Town Hall was arranged to give the community a chance to learn about BART’s plans for conservation work along the Wellow Brook walk, which will involve planting wildflowers,…
Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund Awards for All programme, BART spent the day with some very excited children from Chew Magna Primary School. The children couldn’t wait to get stuck in and find out which invetebrates were hiding beneath the waterline of their local river. Armed with nets and trays, the children…
BART are proud to announce that we are extending the ‘Our Wonderful Wellow’ project to include the area of river by Stoney Littleton, Wiltshire. This project will involve a program of coppicing to let light into the currently overshaded river channel, which is affecting the productivity of the river. Opening up views into the river…
Thanks to funding from the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, BART has been busy on the upper Somerset Frome since October working on our Diffuse Pollution Sediment Pathways Project. Sediment entering watercourses can have a detrimental effect on aquatic ecology, including fish and invertebrates. This project has used predominantly field surveys to identify where sediment is…
We pleased to be teaming up with Midsomer Norton Town Council on a project to improve the Wellow Brook. This local initative aims to enchance the community conservation space along the Wellow Brook Walk, which will involve planting areas of wildflowers, constructing flow deflecting structures in the river to improve brown trout habitat and running…