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Acronyms

ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 

AMPA aminomethylphosphonate 

APE Area of Potential Effect 

AQCB Air Quality Control Board 

BA Biological Assessment 

BABE Terrestrial Species Biological Assessment and Evaluation

BACM Best Available Control Measures 

BE Biological Evaluation 

BMI “Benthic” Macroinvertebrates 

BMPs Best Management Practices 

BTU’s British Thermal Units 

CAA Clean Air Act 

CAAA Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 

CALVEG Classification and Assessment with LANDSAT of Visible Ecological Groupings 

CAN Canadian Fire Danger Rating System 

CARB California Air Resource Board 

CAR Critical Aquatic Refuge

CBI Conservation Biology Institute 

CCAA California Clean Air Act 

CDFG California Department of Fish and Game 

CE cumulative effects 

CEQ Council on Environmental Quality 

CEQA California Environmental Quality Act 

CFLR Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program 

Cfs cubic feet per second 
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CNDDB California Natural Diversity Database 

CO2 Carbon dioxide 

CO carbon monoxide 

CRLF California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) 

CSO California spotted owl 

CSOS California Spotted Owl Study 

CV Coefficient of variation 

CVRWQCB Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board 

CWE cumulative watershed effects 

CWEA Cumulative Watershed Effects Analysis 

CWHR California Wildlife Habitat Relationship 

CZO Critical Zone Observatory

dbh diameter at breast height 

DO dissolved oxygen 

DPS Pacific fisher 

DSEIS Draft Supplemental EIS 

E endangered 

E. coli Escherichia coli 

EIS Environmental Impact Statement 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

ERA Equivalent Roaded Area 

ESA Endangered Species Act 

Eveg Sierra National Forest Existing Vegetation 

EW Experimental Watershed 

FBAT Fire Behavior Assessment Tool 

FFE Fire/Fuels Extension 

FIA Forest Inventory and Analysis 
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FRCC fire regime condition class 

FS Forest Service 

FSEIS Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 

FSH Forest Service Handbook 

FSM Forest Service Manual 

FSS Forest Service Sensitive 

FVS Forest Vegetation Simulator 

FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

FYLF foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii)

GIS Geographic Information Systems 

GTR North General Technical Report 

HFI Healthy Forest Initiative 

HFRA Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 

HQ hazard quotient 

HRCA Home Range Core Area 

HSRD High Sierra Ranger District 

HUC5 5th code Hydrologic Unit Codes 

HUC 6 6th level Hydrologic Unit Code 

HUC8 8th code Hydrologic Units 

KREW Kings River Experimental Watershed 

KRP Kings River Project 

LOPs limited operating periods 

LRMP or Forest Plan Land and Resource Management Plan 

LWD large woody debris 

m meter

MAPS Sierra Nevada Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship 

MIS management indicator species 
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ML maintenance levels 

MOU memorandum of understanding 

mph miles per hour 

MUN municipal supply

MVZ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 

MYLF mountain yellow-legged frog 

NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards 

NCASI National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 

NEON National Ecological Observatory Network 

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act 

NF National Forests 

NFDRS National Fire Danger Rating System 

NFMA National Forest Management Act 

NFS National Forest System 

NFSR National Forest System Roads 

NFTS National Forest Transportation System 

NHPA National Historic Preservation Act 

NOx nitrogen oxides 

NOEL no observed effect level 

NOI Notice of Intent 

NPE nonylphenol polyethoxylate 

NRHP National Register of Historic Places 

NWCG National Wildfire Coordination Group 

OFL Old Forest Linkages 

OHV Off Highway Vehicle 

OSV over‐snow vehicles 

P proposed 
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PAC Protected Activity Centers 

PM2.5 particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in size 

PM10 particulate matter less than 10 microns 

ppb parts per billion

ppm parts per million 

PNV Present net value 

PSD Prevention of Significant Deterioration 

PSW Pacific Southwest Research Station 

Q Flow 

R5 Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service 

RCA Riparian Conservation Areas 

RCO Resources Conservation Objectives 

Regional PA Regional Programmatic Agreement 

RfD reference dose 

RFR red fir 

RMAs riparian management areas 

ROC Reactive Organic Gases 

ROD Record of Decision 

2004 ROD 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Record of Decision 

ROS Recreation Opportunity Spectrum 

RPA 1974 Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 

RWQCBs Regional Water Quality Control Boards 

SCE Southern California Edison 

SCI Stream Condition Inventory 

SDEIS Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

SDI Stand Density Index 

S&Gs Standards and Guidelines 
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SHPO State Historic Preservation Officer 

SIP Implementation Plan 

SJV San Joaquin Valley 

SJVAPCD San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District 

SMC Sierra mixed conifer 

SMZ Streamside Management Zones 

SNEP Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project 

SNF Sierra National Forest

SNFPA Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment 

SO2 sulpher dioxide 

SSFCA Southern Sierra Fisher Conservation Area 

SWRCB California State Water Resources Control Board 

T003 Teakettle Creek watershed 

T threatened 

TE threatened or endangered 

TES Threatened, Endangered, or FS sensitive plants 

THP Timber Harvest Plan 

TOC Total Organic Gases/Threshold of Concern 

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

USDI USFWS U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service 

USFS United States Forest Service 

USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

USGS United States Geological Service 

V* increase in fine sediment in pools

VDE Fugitive (visible) dust emissions 

VES Visual Encounter Survey 

VOCs volatile organic compounds 
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VOC Volatile Organic Gases 

WQLS Water Quality Limited Segments 

WPB Western Pine Beetle 

WPT Western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata)

WUI Wildland Urban Interface/Intermix 

WY Water Year 

YT Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus (=Bufo) canorus)