We have a keen interest in landscape-scale environmental planning projects, and offer a range of consultancy services to facilitate the process.

We provide services that help bring landowners, public bodies and communities together to achieve common goals.

Our peatland research and experimental trials have achieved wide recognition amongst the government agencies for their quality. In November 2015, our work was recognised with a Nature of Scotland Award from the RSPB.

SCL has expert in-house GIS capability to support all aspects of work that we undertake for our clients.

SCL offers a range of integrated services to evaluate the condition of peatlands on development and conservation sites.

Why not look at our blog? It is updated regularly and describes the wide spectrum of services we offer our clients.

We deliver a wide range of services to our clients in the wind energy sector, from scoping through construction to operations.

Our staff hold Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) cards, have a First Aid at Work certificate and are trained to work under CDM regulations. SCL is registered with Achilles.

SCL has expertise in upland geomorphology, and offers specialist technical services across a range of habitats including blanket bogs.

SCL delivers a range of survey and monitoring services in commercial forests including stocking density and crop inventory.

SCL has a long history of involvement in plant ecology and is experienced in a wide range of site survey methods and monitoring techniques.

Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) now offer a Woodland Improvement Grant (WIG) for deer management planning, based on the deer abundance survey techniques we developed.

SCL offers a wide range of animal ecology services, with a focus on delivering high precision monitoring to help our clients make informed decisions.

We investigate the impact that mammals have in all types of woodlands and open range habitats, often using a formal experimental approach.

20 years of research and development by SCL has resulted in development of a high precision field method to estimate deer abundance in woodlands.

SCL has spent almost 20 years developing high quality, custom-designed environmental monitoring schemes in the uplands for our long-term industrial partners.

We have expertise in quantifying grazing impact across a wide range of habitats and animal species.

Our staff have a critical scientific eye and are experienced in the field of technical review.

SCL has an in-depth understanding of all aspects of experimental design, statistical analysis and field craft, enabling us to deliver a wide range of high precision monitoring techniques to clients.