This CED spatial web service (ESRI ArcGIS Online Hosted Feature Layer) is a optimized quick visualization and unique value source for optimized CED web startup. The CED provides Sagebrush biome spatial representations and attribute information of conservation efforts entered into the Conservation Efforts Database (https://conservationefforts.org) by various data providers. This spatial web service is made of point and polygon layers and non-spatial tables. Feature records are group with their respective spatial feature type layers (point, polygon). The two spatial layers have identical attribute fields.

Read only access to this data is ONLY available via an interactive web map on the Conservation Efforts Database website or authorized websites. Users who are interested in more access can directly contact the data providers by using the contact information available through the CED interactive map's pop-up/identify feature.

The spatially explicit, web-based Conservation Efforts Database is capable of (1) allowing multiple-users to enter data from different locations, (2) uploading and storing documents, (3) linking conservation actions to one or more threats (one-to-many relationships), (4) reporting functions that would allow summaries of the conservation actions at multiple scales (e.g., management zones, populations, or priority areas for conservation), and (5) accounting for actions at multiple scales from small easements to statewide planning efforts.The sagebrush ecosystem is the largest ecosystem type in the continental U.S., providing habitat for more than 350 associated fish and wildlife species. In recognition of the need to conserve a healthy sagebrush ecosystem to provide for the long-term conservation of its inhabitants, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) developed the Conservation Efforts Database version 2.0.0 (CED). The purpose of the CED is to efficiently capture the unprecedented level of conservation plans and actions being implemented throughout the sagebrush ecosystem and designed to capture actions not only for its most famous resident, the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) but for the other species that rely on sagebrush habitats. Understanding the distribution and type of conservation actions happening across the landscape will allow visualization and quantification of the extent to which threats are being addressed.

The purpose of this CED spatial web service (ESRI ArcGIS Online Hosted Feature Layer) is to provide CED data for authorized web sites or authorized users.