The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project

The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP) was requested by Congress in the Conference Report for Interior and Related Agencies 1993 Appropriation Act (H.R. 5503). This report 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 convened a steering committee with representatives from the Forest Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, the University of California, the California Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, to help draft the charge and select the Science Team. The Science Team was eventually composed of eighteen team members and nineteen special consultants. In addition, many other scientists worked closely with team members (107 as authors or co-authors of chapters and reports). The project was completed in December, 1995.

The links on this page are to the sections of the SNEP report dealing directly with fire. To find out more about SNEP, or to view the contents of the entire SNEP report, go to the SNEP Web site #1 or SNEP Web site #2.

(These pages are part of the Berkeley Digital Library Project)

An Overview of Fire in the Sierra Nevada - Download as 271kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHORS: Kevin S. McKelvey, Carl N. Skinner, Chi-ru Chang, Don C. Erman, Susan J. Husari, David J. Parsons, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, C. Phillip Weatherspoon
Fire Regimes, Past and Present - Download as 286kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHORS: Carl N. Skinner, Chi-ru Chang
Ecosystem Responses to Fire and Variations in Fire Regimes - Download as 305kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHOR: Chi-ru Chang
Fire-Management Policies and Programs - Download as 219kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHORS: Susan J. Husari, Kevin S. McKelvey
Twentieth-Century Fire Patterns on Forest Service Lands - Download as 1,986kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHORS: Kevin S. McKelvey, Kelly K. Busse
Fire Frequency Analysis of Sierra Forests - Download as 296kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHORS: Don C. Erman, Russell Jones
Use of a Deterministic Fire Growth Model to Test Fuel Treatments - Download as 765kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHOR: Jan W. van Wagtendonk
Fire-Silviculture Relationships in Sierra Forests - Download as 162kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHOR: C. Phillip Weatherspoon
Giant Sequoia Management Issues: Protection, Restoration, and Conservation - Download as 19,795kb PDF file - Abstract
AUTHOR: Nate Stephenson

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