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The Lorax and the Land Ranch
Sheldon Atwood
Excerpt from Program:
"Profit and conservation are two words rarely found in the same sentence. This presentation illustrates a business model whose goal is to perpetuate fully functioning landscapes that yield sustained ecological, social, and financial wealth and personal satisfaction. The model is based on fundamental principles of ecology, behavior, and economics and is being applied by Carrus Land Systems to finance acquisition and management of western agricultural lands. Creative ownership strategies and innovative stewardship practices combine to accelerate efficient conservation efforts and encourage sustainable ranch management. Our approach complements traditional land conservation by offering voluntary accountability and direct evidence of desired outcomes. These outcomes include profitable conservation partnerships, sustainable communities and sound stewardship.
"Sheldon Atwood, rancher, businessman, private conservationist; is the foolish disciple of fellow nonconformists Fred Provenza and Gregg Simonds. Utah State University administrators were freed of him in 2005 after a formal proceeding they had to repeat three times before succeeding. Since graduating, Sheldon has continued to affiliate with questionable company through Carrus Land Systems, an organization dedicated to quietly rocking the boat and stirring up trouble in the comfortable worlds of traditional agriculture and conventional conservation. He talks to a variety of audiences every year, yet except for a growing but apparently near-inconsequential contingent of wackos who buy into his hare-brained philosophy and impractical suggestions, little evidence exists to indicate many have actually listened. A persistent, but inarticulate penman, Sheldon had several of his semi-scientific observations, inventions, and seemingly random ramblings rejected by a variety of journals before duping a few. He now lives in a swamp off the Bear River in Northern Utah, repeatedly suffering from caffeine withdrawals, sipping intellectual alphabet soup, lazily awaiting an eternal rest among the Rocky Mountain shadows of his 'home and native land,' and hoping that his four sons -A, B, C, and D - remember the way."
Presentation Outline:
Excerpt from Program:
"Profit and conservation are two words rarely found in the same sentence. This presentation illustrates a business model whose goal is to perpetuate fully functioning landscapes that yield sustained ecological, social, and financial wealth and personal satisfaction. The model is based on fundamental principles of ecology, behavior, and economics and is being applied by Carrus Land Systems to finance acquisition and management of western agricultural lands. Creative ownership strategies and innovative stewardship practices combine to accelerate efficient conservation efforts and encourage sustainable ranch management. Our approach complements traditional land conservation by offering voluntary accountability and direct evidence of desired outcomes. These outcomes include profitable conservation partnerships, sustainable communities and sound stewardship.
"Sheldon Atwood, rancher, businessman, private conservationist; is the foolish disciple of fellow nonconformists Fred Provenza and Gregg Simonds. Utah State University administrators were freed of him in 2005 after a formal proceeding they had to repeat three times before succeeding. Since graduating, Sheldon has continued to affiliate with questionable company through Carrus Land Systems, an organization dedicated to quietly rocking the boat and stirring up trouble in the comfortable worlds of traditional agriculture and conventional conservation. He talks to a variety of audiences every year, yet except for a growing but apparently near-inconsequential contingent of wackos who buy into his hare-brained philosophy and impractical suggestions, little evidence exists to indicate many have actually listened. A persistent, but inarticulate penman, Sheldon had several of his semi-scientific observations, inventions, and seemingly random ramblings rejected by a variety of journals before duping a few. He now lives in a swamp off the Bear River in Northern Utah, repeatedly suffering from caffeine withdrawals, sipping intellectual alphabet soup, lazily awaiting an eternal rest among the Rocky Mountain shadows of his 'home and native land,' and hoping that his four sons -A, B, C, and D - remember the way."
Presentation Outline:
- How Can We Create a Future We Want?
- Constraints to Success
- New Solutions Needed
- Value of Production
- Incentives
- Four Forms of Wealth
- Two Ways to Increase Land-Based Wealth
- Land-Based Industries
- The Land Ranch Concept
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