A Land-Management Legend Offers 50 Years of Soil-Nourishing Wisdom.
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All posts tagged: Soil
Can Dirt Save the Earth?
This article concludes, “The essential (environmental) insight is one often overlooked when we talk about climate change: The element that threatens to smother civilization is also, in different forms, the fundamental building block of life. […]
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Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet
“People reap more benefit from nature when they give up trying to vanquish it and instead see it clearly, as a demanding but indispensable ally. Because of carbon’s climate change connection, we’ve been conditioned to […]
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Understanding Brittleness to Better Understand Your Land
Learn the concept of brittleness and how understanding where your region falls on the brittleness scale can affect the management options for your ranch or farm. Understanding Brittleness to Better Read Your Land from Savory […]
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Get Paid for Watching the Grass Grow: Carbon Sequestration, Texas-Style
Fans of carbon credit transfers should focus on grassland restoration through holistic planned grazing. Unlike many carbon credit boondoggles, planned grazing is not based on fake science. And it works – thereby helping wildlife, habitat, […]
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Insect Armageddon: “The Fate of the World’s Insects Is Inseparable from Our Own”
Unless we adopt rangeland and agricultural practices that respect biodiversity and reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides and herbicides, we face catastrophic insect “declines (which) will cascade onto ecosystem functioning and human well-being.”
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Most range and wildlife scientists advise that the best way to graze, if one must graze, is “low-density set-stocking”: In plain English, a few cattle in the same place, all the time.For decades now, planned […]
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