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Holistic Management

2015-09-22T19:18:43Z

71.237.69.190:

"The core competency of Holistic Management is the ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands, rangelands, and savannas. These environments comprise two-thirds of the planet’s surface area." <ref> Savory Institute

[[Image:hmcolor.gif|thumb|left]]

==Key Insights==
===Holistic Perspective===
"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other." Allan Savory
*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.

===Brittleness===
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
**precipitation reliability
**the distribution of humidity during the year
**chem/physical breaking down of dead organic matter
**how quickly soil biology communities develop
Land responds very differently to various practices and tools in brittle and non-brittle environments because of the speed and effectiveness of the decay process.
===Predator-Prey Relationship===
Essentially, predators cause bunching and moving of large herds of herbivores which affects the environment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagO3gmwmA0 Lords of Nature]

===Timing is Everything===

"You cannot overgraze land, you can only overgraze plants."
*Plants need a recovery period before a second bite is taken in order for it to fully recover.
*The process of recovery after grazing means growing an entirely new root system, not just regrowing above ground biomass comparable to before the grazing event.
*Overgrazing and overtrampling is more depenedent of the '''amount of time and frequency''' animals are exposed to land/plants and '''not the number''' of animals.

==Ecosystem Processes==
===Water Cycle===
===Nutrient/Mineral Cycle===
===Community Dynamics===
===Energy Flow===

Holistic Management

2015-09-22T19:16:19Z

71.237.69.190:

"The core competency of Holistic Management is the ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands, rangelands, and savannas. These environments comprise two-thirds of the planet’s surface area." <ref> Savory Institute

[[Image:http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/resource/onlinetext/Decisions/HRM.gif|thumb|left]]

==Key Insights==
===Holistic Perspective===
"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other." Allan Savory
*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.

===Brittleness===
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
**precipitation reliability
**the distribution of humidity during the year
**chem/physical breaking down of dead organic matter
**how quickly soil biology communities develop
Land responds very differently to various practices and tools in brittle and non-brittle environments because of the speed and effectiveness of the decay process.
===Predator-Prey Relationship===
Essentially, predators cause bunching and moving of large herds of herbivores which affects the environment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagO3gmwmA0 Lords of Nature]

===Timing is Everything===

"You cannot overgraze land, you can only overgraze plants."
*Plants need a recovery period before a second bite is taken in order for it to fully recover.
*The process of recovery after grazing means growing an entirely new root system, not just regrowing above ground biomass comparable to before the grazing event.
*Overgrazing and overtrampling is more depenedent of the '''amount of time and frequency''' animals are exposed to land/plants and '''not the number''' of animals.

==Ecosystem Processes==
===Water Cycle===
===Nutrient/Mineral Cycle===
===Community Dynamics===
===Energy Flow===

Holistic Management

2015-09-22T19:05:45Z

71.237.69.190:

"The core competency of Holistic Management is the ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands, rangelands, and savannas. These environments comprise two-thirds of the planet’s surface area." <ref> Savory Institute

==Key Insights==
===Holistic Perspective===
"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other." Allan Savory
*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.

===Brittleness===
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
**precipitation reliability
**the distribution of humidity during the year
**chem/physical breaking down of dead organic matter
**how quickly soil biology communities develop
Land responds very differently to various practices and tools in brittle and non-brittle environments because of the speed and effectiveness of the decay process.
===Predator-Prey Relationship===
Essentially, predators cause bunching and moving of large herds of herbivores which affects the environment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagO3gmwmA0 Lords of Nature]

===Timing is Everything===

"You cannot overgraze land, you can only overgraze plants."
*Plants need a recovery period before a second bite is taken in order for it to fully recover.
*The process of recovery after grazing means growing an entirely new root system, not just regrowing above ground biomass comparable to before the grazing event.
*Overgrazing and overtrampling is more depenedent of the '''amount of time and frequency''' animals are exposed to land/plants and '''not the number''' of animals.

==Ecosystem Processes==
===Water Cycle===
===Nutrient/Mineral Cycle===
===Community Dynamics===
===Energy Flow===