Status of the Sierra Nevada: The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project

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.

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).

[Summary provided by the USGS.]