Managing wholes
Peter DonovanWriting and updates about carbon and water cycling, soil health, and communities of practice.
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Water cycling and human agency
With the arrival of OpenET several years ago, we can now better understand water cycling in the western U.S. over space and time. If we know our territory, we might even detect the footprints of human decisions and agency in the differences...
Testimony
My name is Peter Donovan, and I live in La Grande, Oregon. In my younger years I did forestry work and worked on sheep ranches on Snake and Salmon rivers and further east, as a packer and herder. Later I studied with Allan Savory, who helpe...
The social weak link
In simple, right/wrong situations, information or data is often the key to solving problems. The right username and password, the right replacement part, the right analysis or diagnosis, the best practice to fix a dysfunction--these simply...
A kitchen-counter water cycle experiment
In the last post on the estimated losses of soil moisture worldwide I promised a more local example of water balances. Here are 1) a pair of charts of precipitation and evapotranspiration in central Montana, and 2) a kitchen-counter water c...
Global loss of soil moisture
A recent article — Seo et al., Science 387, 1408–1412 (2025) — uses multiple data sources and models to estimate that the global loss of soil moisture from 1979 to 2016 is responsible for over 10 mm of global sea-level rise — about 3941 gig...
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founder of Soil Carbon Coalition (soilcarboncoalition.org, not about carbon offsets, but about people power); publisher and writer for managingwholes.com, and developer of soilhealth.app. I can be reached at [email protected]
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