How is private land owner information protected?

In cases where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) needs to be obscured, the CED asks that NO PII tied to an effort is provided. The CED does not request names, phone numbers, or contact information from private landowners, and the CED Team suggests that information such as ranch names or other identifying details not be provided. To obscure the spatial location of efforts on private lands, we ask that efforts be reported by ‘Spatial Reporting Units’, which are polygons large enough to obscure private land owner location, while being small enough to be biologically meaningful. These units are developed in coordination with state and federal partners and are available across all modules.