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==Key Insights==
 
==Key Insights==
===Holism===
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===Holistic Perspective===
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"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other."  Allan Savory
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*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
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*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.
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===Brittleness===
 
===Brittleness===
 
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
 
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:

Revision as of 11:56, 13 September 2015

"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

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.