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Seasonal movement of livestock and especially sheep between mountain and lowland pastures either under the care of herders or (as among various pastoral peoples) accompanied by the whole population of owners.

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  • Although range­lands are resilient under traditional mobile grazing practices — commonly called transhumance — in response to seasonal changes, reduced...
  • Management strategies include measures to spread the pressures of human activities, such as transhumance (rotational use) of rangelands and well sites, stock­ing rates...
  • These same mountains remained in the orbit of seasonal transhumance for colonial farmers.
  • 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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