Holistic Grazing (split from Cliven Bundy thread)

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Originally Posted by Biscuit (Post 10026226) RBF has been making a slow crawl from Holistic grazing to rest rotation to modern land management. It should be noted that these three terms are not synonymous and are not actually interchangeable.

You are right. They are not completely interchangeable. Rest Rotation is a grazing system. It resembles HMPG only in the biophysical and only in the narrow range of biophysical that is found in Western North American rangelands receiving on average 5-15 inches of annual rainfall per year and being grazed by cattle. But HMPG involves much more than that. It is a management system whose principles can be applied world wide on any continent (except Antarctica) and in any brittle to non-brittle rangeland, with any species of grazer, by anyone, at any technology level or education level, and under a wide range of cultural and social systems, for a wide ranging set of goals that may or may not include actually eating livestock. So HMPG is far more advanced and flexible than RRG.



But since we are talking about The Western USA and Rangeland averaging 5 inches per year at the Bunker hill allotment that is being grazed by cattle, the two systems do overlap in this case.