RangeNet

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Dear You have been nominated for RangeNet membership by A special project of Western Watershed's Project, Inc. (a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership corporation), RangeNet is a network of individuals who are working to improve the ecological conditions of America's public rangelands. Rangeland condition is the perpetual step-child of environmental organizations and management agencies alike. While no other use impacts as many acres of western public lands as frequently as grazing by domestic livestock, those impacts often go unnoticed by the untrained eye.

Friends of Sycamore Valley . FSV was founded in 1998 to bring a greater public awareness to the negative impacts of commercial cattle grazing in the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Through a gate and just a hundred paces upstream from the bed & breakfast on Poso Creek is an entirely different vista composed of shades of brown. Here, the Sequoia National Forest is commercially grazed by private cattle. Nationally, the government's grazing program costs taxpayers between $200 million and up to half a billion dollars each year. Here, the streambanks are damaged. There is no vegetation to provide habitat for song birds, mammals and amphibians.

Rangeland condition is the perpetual step-child of environmental organizations and management agencies alike. While no other use impacts as many acres of western public lands as frequently as grazing by domestic livestock, those impacts often go unnoticed by the untrained eye. The damage is often as subtle as it is pervasive and devastating to indigenous organisms, soil properties, and hydrologic functions.

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