Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Transfer of livestock from one grazing ground to another, as from lowlands to highlands, with the changing of seasons.
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- noun the
moving of cattle or other grazinganimals to newpastures , often quite distant, according to the change in season
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although rangelands are resilient under traditional mobile grazing practices — commonly called transhumance — in response to seasonal changes, reduced transhumance leads to overgrazing and rangeland degradation.
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Management strategies include measures to spread the pressures of human activities, such as transhumance (rotational use) of rangelands and well sites, stocking rates matched to the carrying capacity of ecosystems, and diverse species composition.
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There is a silent 1925 documentary called Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison, about an heroic seasonal trek (transhumance) of herds and Bakhtiari herdsmen in Persia.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
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There is a silent 1925 documentary called Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison, about an heroic seasonal trek (transhumance) of herds and Bakhtiari herdsmen in Persia.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
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These same mountains remained in the orbit of seasonal transhumance for colonial farmers.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Those known locally as drailles, just wide enough for a pack horse or a trickle of sheep, were for transhumance: leading the animals to the summer pastures high on the mountain, and back to the shelter of the valleys for winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Those known locally as drailles, just wide enough for a pack horse or a trickle of sheep, were for transhumance: leading the animals to the summer pastures high on the mountain, and back to the shelter of the valleys for winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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However, nomadic cattle herders from the Nyala area of Sudan and from Chad, with between 30-40,000 head, enter the park during the winter as part of their dry season range, in a traditional transhumance.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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From Harvard VES: "a long-form work depicting the annual transhumance of a band of sheep and their herders with the last grazing permit in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains."
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For example, a key traditional adaptation was transhumance for pastoral communities, which in many dryland locations is no longer possible.
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