Conservation Efforts Database

Conservation Efforts Database ยท CED v6.0.0

What's New in the CED

The CED has been upgraded with new tools for exploring, entering, and reviewing conservation efforts. This page lists what is new and links to each feature.

Features marked Sign in required are for registered CED users. Select the link to sign in, and you will be taken to that page afterward.

For everyone

Open to the public, plus the tools every signed-in user gets.

  • New welcome page

    The home page now shows live summaries of approved efforts, reported acres, and years represented, along with the leading activities by reported acres.

  • Explore CED Data

    An interactive explorer for comparing reported conservation work across modules, years, and metrics.

  • Grasslands module

    The new Grasslands module is online and ready for data input.

  • Redesigned navigation

    The menus have been reorganized so modules, maps, data entry, and help resources are easier to find from every page.

  • Report a bug or request an enhancement

    Send feedback straight from the CED, attach screenshots, and follow the status of everything you have submitted.

  • My CED Center

    One place to see your conservation efforts, efforts shared with you, and your profile.

For data entry users

New ways to enter and update conservation efforts.

  • Classification Crosswalk

    Upload a spreadsheet to match your own activity, subactivity, objective, and method terms to the current CED classifications. The file is processed in your browser and is not sent to the server.

  • Batch Upload Center

    Upload many efforts at once. Run a dry run first to check your file, then commit the batch and download a report of the results. Includes a Grasslands template and crosswalk packages for the other modules.

  • Identify Potential Duplicate Projects

    In Step 3 of the Sagebrush, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Cutthroat Trout, and Grasslands entry forms, a new box below Effort Details checks whether your effort may duplicate one already in the CED. It looks across all modules for efforts whose spatial data overlaps or is close to yours, and shows similar effort names, project names, and dates to help you decide. Only approved efforts, plus your own drafts and efforts awaiting approval, are searched. You can open a result to see its details and the contact for the person who entered it, and you can edit it only if it is yours. The check runs only when you select the button and never stops you from saving.

  • Collaborators and map editor updates

    Named collaborators can now be recorded on each effort, and the spatial footprint and SRU map editors have been updated. Both are available when you create or edit an effort.

Cutthroat Trout module

New analysis and export tools for cutthroat trout data.

  • Spatial Metrics

    A map-based workspace for spatial metrics on cutthroat trout populations, with export of the summary.

  • Genetic charts

    Interactive genetic charts, each with an expandable map showing where the data were collected.

  • Cutthroat Trout reports

    Choose a species and population, review the genetic, demographic, and habitat records found for it, and generate a PDF report with charts.

  • Export selected data

    Select records on the demographic, habitat, and genetic data pages and export just those records.

For approving officials

Available to approving officials.

  • Approving Official Center

    A single home for the users and conservation efforts assigned to you.

  • Approval Queue

    One queue replaces the separate approval pages for each module. Review, approve, or return efforts from every module you have access to.

For CED administrators

Available to CED administrators.

  • CED Admin Center

    Site settings, user administration, conservation effort administration, bug and enhancement reports, and the contact center, all in one place.

  • Query CED

    The conservation effort query has been rebuilt with summary totals and downloadable summary and detail workbooks.