SNFPA Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

January 2004

Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1

Table of Contents

Summary

Background

Purpose and Need for Action

Proposed Action

Responsible Officials and Decision to be Made

Public Participation

Forest Service and Tribal Relations

The Alternatives

Environmental Consequences

Chapter 1: Purpose and Need

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Background

1.3. Purpose and Need for Action

1.4. Proposed Action

1.5. Responsible Officials and Decision to be made

1.6. Public Participation

1.7. Forest Service and Tribal Relations

Chapter 2: Alternatives, including the Proposed Action

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Considering Uncertainty and Risk in the Decision

2.3. Alternatives Considered in Detail

2.4. Alternatives Considered but Eliminated from Detailed Analysis

2.5. Comparison of the Effects of the Alternatives

Chapter 3: Affected Environment

Introduction

3.1. Physical and Biological Environment

3.2. Species of the Sierra Nevada

3.3. Land and Resource Uses

3.4 Social and Economic Environment

Chapter 4: Environmental Consequences

Introduction

4.1. Cumulative Effects

4.2. Physical and Biological Environment

4.3. Species of the Sierra Nevada

4.4. Land and Resource Uses

4.5. Environmental Consequences for Alternatives F2 through F8

4.6. Other Effects

Appendix A: Standards and Guidelines Alternatives S1 and S2

Appendix B: Modeling Outputs and Effects

Appendix C: Consistency Review of Documentation for the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment

Appendix D: Willow Flycatcher Sites in the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Planning Area Analysis to support the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Appendix E: Science Consistency Review Report

List of Preparers

References

Acronyms and Abbreviations

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