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Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Study (SNEP) is a congressionally mandated 3 year study of the entire Sierra Nevada range. It contains a list of critical findings and a summary of the assessments, case studies, and alternative management strategies. The 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. The U.S. Forest Service augmented support for the study and convened a steering committee to help draft the charge and select the Science Team. The Steering Committee had representatives from the Forest Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, the University of California, and the California Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was managed by the University of California Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis, CA, formal release of the report to Congress occurred on June 7, 1996.
The project devoted most of its effort to analyzing existing information rather than conducting new studies or experiments. The integration of this accumulated information became a primary objective as they sought a range of options for future directions of management. Geographic information systems (GISs) formed a primary means of synthesizing data, displaying information, and considering options for further analysis. The complete report of SNEP is contained in four volumes: Volume I is a summary of the other volumes and contains a presentation of alternative strategies and their implications for the future health and sustainability of the ecosystem. Volume II contains technical assessments of historical, physical, biological, ecological, social, and institutional conditions in the Sierra Nevada, selected case studies, details on the scientific basis for and methods used in strategies, and references to the literature and data sources. Volume III has late submissions of peer-reviewed papers from volume II, additional commissioned reports, and summary listings of workshops and participants. Volume IV is a computer-based catalogue of all public databases, maps, and other digitally stored information used in the project. These materials will be listed under the SNEP name and available on the Internet from the Alexandria Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara (http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/) and the California Environmental Resource Evaluation System (CERES) project of the Resources Agency of the state of California (http://ceres.ca.gov/snep). A directory to the GIS portion and available data from the study is in volume I.
ecosystem project, report to Congress, project information, case studies, management strategies, scientific review, national forest, geographic information systems, SNEP maps, digital spatial data, maps, conservation planning, ecosystem management, ecological factors, social conditions, dataanalysis,
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Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project Centers for Water and Wildland Resources One Shields Ave. University of California Davis, CA 95616 Phone: (530) 752-7992 FAX: (530) 752-8345 Email: snep@cwwr.ucdavis.edu
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