SIG provides extensive expertise in landscape ecology, forest ecology and rangeland ecology. SIG's principals bring years of graduate education, as well as publication, field and lab experience. SIG can provide numerous products in this field, including habitat maps and classifications, land conservation priority maps, watershed management mapping tools and riparian management mapping tools.

Land Conservation Prioritization SIG's tools can help planners to identify and prioritize lands for purchase or zoning as open space based on ecological metrics, land value, development pressure, habitat uniqueness, housing supply constraints, and other factors.