Sierra Nevada Subregional Boundary - Sierra Nevada Conservancy [ds542]
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Resource Abstract:
Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) boundary. The boundary was mapped to correspond with statute AB 2600 (2004) and as re-defined
in AB 1201 (2005). Work on the boundary was completed by CalFire, GreenInfo Network, and the California Department of Fish
and Game. Meets and bounds description of the area as defined in statute: PRC Section 33302 (f) defines the Sierra Nevada
Region as the area lying within the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Madera,
Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yuba, described as the area bounded
as follows: On the east by the eastern boundary of the State of California; the crest of the White/Inyo ranges; and State
Routes 395 and 14 south of Olancha; on the south by State Route 58, Tehachapi Creek, and Caliente Creek; on the west by the
line of 1,250 feet above sea level from Caliente Creek to the Kern/Tulare County line; the lower level of the western slope's
blue oak woodland, from the Kern/Tulare County line to the Sacramento River near the mouth of Seven-Mile Creek north of Red
Bluff; the Sacramento River from Seven-Mile Creek north to Cow Creek below Redding; Cow Creek, Little Cow Creek, Dry Creek,
and the Shasta National Forest portion of Bear Mountain Road, between the Sacramento River and Lake Shasta; the Pit River
Arm of Shasta Lake; the northerly boundary of the Pit River watershed; the southerly and easterly boundaries of Siskiyou County;
and within Modoc County, the easterly boundary of the Klamath River watershed; and on the north by the northern boundary of
the State of California; excluding both of the following: (1) The Lake Tahoe Region, as described in Section 66905.5 of the
Government Code, where it is defined as "Region." (2) The S
Citation
Title Sierra Nevada Subregional Boundary - Sierra Nevada Conservancy [ds542]
publication Date
9999-01-01
presentationForm
mapDigital
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.