The science of grazing land: how much a pasture can support before it stops recovering, and how to read forage, soil and water together rather than livestock numbers alone. It emerged as a distinct discipline in the twentieth-century United States, pushed forward by the same overgrazing and Dust Bowl-era crises that built soil science, and its founding concern is still the one Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay put starkly: what happens to shared grazing land once no one bears the cost of overusing it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionRangeland management, also called range management or range science, is a natural science centered on the study of rangelands and the conservation and sustainable management of arid and semi-arid lands. 1 Connections
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Cattle, Livestock A core grazing animal the discipline manages rangeland forage for
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Dust Bowl, Milestones Overgrazing and Dust Bowl-era degradation were direct pressures behind the discipline's twentieth-century formation
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Sheep, Livestock A core grazing animal the discipline manages rangeland forage for
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Source Wikipedia: Allan Savory
Source August Ludwig Hormay (Wikipedia)
Source Derrick Thomas (agricultural scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Transhumance, Practices Seasonal grazing movement is one of range science's own subjects
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1. Rangeland Management (Wikipedia)
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Rangeland management (also range management, range science, or arid-land management) is a natural science that centers around the study of rangelands.
Wikipedia: Allan Savory
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This central concept of Holistic Management is most practically applied in Savory's planning procedure for land and livestock management (Holistic Planned Grazing), which allows farmers, ranchers, or pastoralists to bunch and move livestock-when contextually appropriate-in an effort to honor the co-evolved relationships between grassland and herbivores, and as a means to restore degraded landscapes.
Derrick Thomas (agricultural scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Derrick Thomas (1944-13 May 2013) was a British agricultural researcher with special contributions to grassland and forage research in the tropics.
August Ludwig Hormay (Wikipedia)
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August Ludwig Hormay (1907-1999) developed and applied the concept of the rest-rotation grazing management system in areas of the Western United States.
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