Monitoring for Land Health and Productivity

To steer land changes in the direction required, you need to determine where the earliest sign of change is likely to occur, so that you can be sure your management is taking your land where you want it to go.

With Holistic Management, you monitor to make happen what you want to happen- you manage for what you want!

Key Outcomes:

• How to cultivate an awareness of the four ecosystem processes

• How to predict changes and trends on the land

• How to monitor plant growth rates, water supplies, unfavorable grazing patterns

• The importance of monitoring the land’s performance along with animal performance

• Why to assume our actions on the ecosystem processes could be wrong

• Some criteria to monitor that will give the earliest warnings of adverse change

Lunch is included both days.

Pre-Requisite: Foundations of Holistic Management