Ranger Service

The National Park Authority Rangers are a key front line service for visitors and communities in the National Park. They deliver a wide range of services against the National Park Authority’s three core objectives: Conservation, Visitor Experience and Rural Development.

The Ranger Service has 40 permanent staff plus a number of seasonal staff. These staff are split into three area teams:

• Cowal and Breadalbane
  
• Loch Lomond East & The Trossachs
  
• Loch Lomond Water & West
  

• On the ground engagement with visitors as they come into the National Park at key sites.
• Close cooperation with communities to ensure visitor management issues are dealt with as they arise in the Park.
• Close cooperation with Central Scotland Police, Strathclyde Police, Tayside Police and Forestry Commission Scotland as part of the ‘Ranger Service for the National Park'.
• Enforcement of Loch Lomond byelaws and visitor management on Loch Lomond.
• Education and outreach programme to deliver key messages to groups across West and Central Scotland before they visit the Park. For example, raising awareness of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
• Upholding public access rights and encouraging responsible behaviour.
  

The Ranger Service and Conservation:

• Ongoing project work to deliver National Park Biodiversity Action Plan, for example, red squirrel conservation activity.
• Surveying and monitoring of biodiversity change in the Park. For example, black grouse counts.
• Helping to deliver the Natural Heritage Grant Scheme in the National Park.
• Working with volunteers to deliver projects on the ground.
  

The Ranger Service and Rural Development:

• Working with our communities to deliver Community Action Plans.