The Savory Institute is saddened to announce the passing of long-time friend and early student and advocate of Holistic Management, Sid Goodloe (pictured above with his wife, Cheryl.)
Recipient of the 2022 New Mexico Leopold Conservation Award, Sid managed the Carrizo Valley Ranch in Capitan, New Mexico for six decades. Allan and Sid maintained a long-standing friendship, starting in the 1960’s when Sid visited Allan and published his findings in the Journal of Rangeland Management.
Allan Savory offers these words:
“As a Texas A&M Masters student, he did trips to Rhodesia but mainly to visit a ranching friend, Aubrey Mountain. There he learned of our work and was thereafter tasked with feeding back information to his professor. That was how, when I arrived in the US, I was confronted with government booklets on the ‘Short Duration Grazing System’… developed in Texas!
In disgust, Sid arranged for me a lecture tour of eight universities in which he accompanied me. It was after a dinner at Montana State University following one of my talks that Dr. Brian Syndelar made his famous statement to us. “Never mind the hostility you see,” he said, “this university will never be quite the same after tonight.” Later, after the university had me run a couple of workshops, we had a memorable breakfast meeting with faculty members, myself, the President of the University, and the Dean of Science. As some might have heard me tell, at this meeting the President said, “Allan we have no further argument with you. Our problem is what do we teach tomorrow?” This led to Professor Cliff Montaigne working with me and going to China, and to Cliff pointing my nose toward systems science and wicked problems, both of which have been helpful in furthering the evolution of Holistic Management.
Sid remained a close friend and supporter to this day and won a number of range awards. His understanding of Holistic Management remained mostly focused on the Holistic Planned Grazing but even so, he never dropped his support for burning… which led to interesting discussions on his ranch. I will miss them and my old friend dearly.”
