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Status of the Sierra Nevada: The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project

By Don C. Erman, General Editor, and the SNEP Team

Digital Data Series DDS-43
Version 1.0

1997

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Gordon P. Eaton, Director

Coordinated by the Centers for Water and Wildlands Resources which was located at U.C. Davis. The Center has moved to U.C. Riverside, and is now called the Center for Water Resources.

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In cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station

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Covor photo of Echo Lake with double rainbow
Cover photograph by Dwight M. Collins

Summary

This publication consists of the online version of a CD-ROM publication, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-43. The data for this publication total 175 MB on the CD-ROM and 167 MB for this online version. This online version does not include the Acrobat Search index files. It also has a link rather than files for the Adobe Acrobat Reader installer mentioned below.

Introduction

The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project was requested by Congress in the Conference Report for Interior and Related Agencies 1993 Appropriation Act (H.R. 5503), which authorized funds for a "scientific review of the remaining old growth in the national forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, and for a study of the entire Sierra Nevada ecosystem by an independent panel of scientists, with expertise in diverse areas related to this issue."

This publication is a digital version of the set of reports titled Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress published in paper form by the Centers for Water and Wildland Resources of the University of California, Davis. The reports consist of Wildland Resources Center Report No. 39 (Summary), No. 36 (Vol. I - Assessment summaries and management strategies), No. 37 (Vol. II - Assessments and scientific basis for management options), No. 38 (Vol. III - Assessments, commissioned reports, and background information), and No. 40 (Addendum). Vol. IV is a computer-based catalogue of all public databases, maps, and other digitally stored information used in the project. Vol. IV materials are listed under the SNEP name and available on the Internet from the Alexandria Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the California Environmental Resource Evaluation System (CERES) project of the Resources Agency of the state of California (see links below).

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The report is provided as PDF files for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later to view. You can download a copy of the latest version (4.0 at the time of this publication) by clicking the button above. If your copy of Acrobat Reader has "File" "Preferences" "General..." "Open Cross-Document Links In Same Window" selected, you should deselect it. This will keep the main document open while you open and close other PDF files.

CLICK HERE to view the SNEP report now (DDS-43.PDF; 99 KB with links to about 100 other PDF files totalling 167 MB).

CLICK HERE to view the Readme file from the CD-ROM

We also included an extensive bibliography to the Lake Tahoe Case Study and to the Mediated Settlement Agreement for Sequoia National Forest Giant Sequoia Groves omitted in the printed version because of space limitations. These data are available in three formats in addition to the PDF versions mentioned above: Microsoft Word 6.0 (.DOC), Endnote 2 database (.EN2), and ASCII (.TXT).

For Lake Tahoe, over 1,200 references are contained in the ADDEND/A_C07DA directory
CLICK HERE to enter the directory.

For giant sequoias, over 700 references are contained in the ADDEND/A_C08DA directory
CLICK HERE to enter the directory.

Related links

The Sierra Nevada Framework for Conservation and Collaboration of the U.S. Forest Service

Information Center for the Environment (ICE) Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project SNEP Map/Data Site at U.C. Davis

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) at the California Resources Agency

Sierra Nevada Network for Education and Research at U.C. Davis

Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (VESR) administered by the University of California's Natural Reserve System (NRS). It consists of two sites, Valentine Camp and the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL).

U.C. Merced and the U.C. Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI)

View the version history

CLICK HERE to view the version-history file for this report.

Availability of this publication

This report is for sale on CD—ROM by:

U.S. Geological Survey
Information Services, National Mapping Division
Box 25046
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225-0046
Telephone: (888) ASK-USGS

ISBN 0-607-87153-9

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The URL of this page is https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-43/
Date created: 04/21/1997
Last modified: May 5, 2005
E-mail comments to Michael F. Diggles (mdiggles@usgs.gov), U.S. Geological Survey.