The Savory Grazing Method or Holistic Resource Management.
1983; Society for Range Management; Volume: 5; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
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Pasture and Agricultural Systems
ResumoOver the last few years there has been an ever-increasing interest in America in the Savory Grazing Method. During the recent annual meeting of the Society for Range Management in Albuquerque, N. Mex., nearly 500 people visited the nearby scheme operating on tribal Indian land. As a consequence of such interest I have been invited to write this article for Rangelands. I do so in the hopes of expanding understanding and of clearing some of the many myths and misconceptions about abounding in the profession and amongst ranchers. For all conservationists, as well as livestock owners, an answer to the desertification problem has long been sought. It is needed to stop our dams silting, our water tables dropping ever-lower, our wildlife being increasingly threatened and to aid the millions of people living in abject poverty on drying lands in the Third World. Even America will soon realize that water is her Achilles heel and that her wealth and prosperity are dependent upon stable catchments. In Holistic Resource Management (SGM), we undoubtedly have an economically sound, selfsustaining answer to the desertification problem for America as well as the poorest nations bedevilled with it. The fate of many countries depends on how is developed and extended from America. Unfortunately, for some reason America is a nation of extremes where people en masse rush into new things often with enthusiasm unmatched by knowledge, then after a few tragedies react en masse the other way. Generally the American attitude to has been no different. Many have rushed into too fast and with too little knowledge. Most of the knowledge available to the average rancher or university is misinformation and myth spread by the universities themselves, i.e., SGM is a wagon wheel system; is a cell grazing system; is short duration grazing; is rapid rotation grazing, and so on. All of these descriptions are totally wrong. Yet how many ranchers, government agencies and universities do you know who have rushed into it in the belief that it is one or other of the above? First, it is important to realize that what I call Holistic Resource Management is a wildlife management technique even where there are no livestock on the land. It is a
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