Managing With Design, Not Against It.
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. - Genesis 2:15 (ESV)
The first job God gave humanity was to tend a garden. Consider that: even in a perfect creation, before sin entered the world, the garden still required tending. If Adam was needed there, how much more is stewardship needed now, in a world that is broken?
Much of the world believes wildlife habitat performs best when people leave it alone. We believe the opposite, and both Scripture and science bear it out. Creation was designed, every acre of it, and design implies purpose. When we plan a property, we are thinking about how that ground functioned when it was tended just by God's hand and the Native Americans who worked it with fire. Those pre-European habitats are our reference point.
We are realistic about this. It is not practical to restore every acre to that exact condition, though on some ground we can come close. But when we manage each acre in that direction, toward its original function, three things happen together. The wildlife respond. The land becomes beautiful. And it becomes a sound investment. That is what we mean by a rooted land investment.
Most of the failed prescriptions we are called in to fix were written against the design of the land rather than with it. God gave us latitude to manage land for people's benefit, but working against how a place was made is expensive, and it rarely holds. No one wants to spend heavily and never see the value. Work with the design, and the land works with you.
The land management we do on this ground will pass. If we can use it to make an eternal difference, that is where the real impact is.
Stewardship with purpose. Value that endures.
The first job God gave humanity was to tend a garden. Consider that: even in a perfect creation, before sin entered the world, the garden still required tending. If Adam was needed there, how much more is stewardship needed now, in a world that is broken?
Much of the world believes wildlife habitat performs best when people leave it alone. We believe the opposite, and both Scripture and science bear it out. Creation was designed, every acre of it, and design implies purpose. When we plan a property, we are thinking about how that ground functioned when it was tended just by God's hand and the Native Americans who worked it with fire. Those pre-European habitats are our reference point.
We are realistic about this. It is not practical to restore every acre to that exact condition, though on some ground we can come close. But when we manage each acre in that direction, toward its original function, three things happen together. The wildlife respond. The land becomes beautiful. And it becomes a sound investment. That is what we mean by a rooted land investment.
Most of the failed prescriptions we are called in to fix were written against the design of the land rather than with it. God gave us latitude to manage land for people's benefit, but working against how a place was made is expensive, and it rarely holds. No one wants to spend heavily and never see the value. Work with the design, and the land works with you.
The land management we do on this ground will pass. If we can use it to make an eternal difference, that is where the real impact is.
Stewardship with purpose. Value that endures.
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