Evolution and Prairie Soils Advocate, South Eastman Transition Initiative Evolution is not only an intriguing process, it is also inevitable. For plants and animals that means the fittest survive. Landscapes evolve to their climax. That is the rule of evolution. An understanding of this should affect the way we manage all aspects of our environment, and our natural environment is prairie. I was reminded of this again recently, listening to a TED talk by Allan Savory. Allan Savory is an ecologist who is probably the leading world voice advocating Holistic Management of the grasslands of this planet. Savory grew up in, what is now, Zimbabwe where he became acquainted with desertification as it affects the semi-arid, tropical parts of the world. Where desertification had begun (as a result of over grazing), he observed that protecting such land from grazing totally did not result in the restoration of that land. On the other hand, grazing such land at high intensity, but for short periods only, did result in the recovery of the productive capacity of that land.