Sawmill Creek (at left)
Salmon-Challis NF, 2000 Season,
Before and After Grazing
 

A special project of Western Watersheds Project, Inc. (WWP) which is a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership corporation headquartered in Hailey, Idaho, 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. The damage is often as subtle as it is pervasive and devastating to indigenous organisms, soil properties, and hydrologic functions. Other higher profile items such as forests, riparian, wilderness, and so forth end up dominating environmental and management agendas while range condition seldom shares the spotlight long enough to accomplish needed reforms. RangeNet was founded to mitigate that situation by improving communication and providing a focal point where individuals may work more effectively on rangeland condition issues in support of their existing organizational affiliations.