October 26, 2011
“As grasslands diminish on prairies and savannas around the world, an innovative ranching technique that reverses the environmental damage of desertification makes its way to the US.”

(photo by Francis Joseph Dean/Newscom from CSM, 10/24/11)

The Christian Science Monitor reports again on the potential of Allan Savory’s theories of intensive rotational grazing on a huge scale to not simply halt, but reverse, degradation of grazing lands. They also reported on Savory’s work two years ago when I gather it was rather more controversial. Savory received the 2010 Buckminster Fuller award for his theories which he developed as a parks ranger in southern Africa in the 1960s. Find Judith Swartz’s story at http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/1024/Saving-US-grasslands-a-bid-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-desertification . 

Does this change the animal unit formula used by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) when writing the grazing leases? I’ll try to find out more in the coming weeks. 

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