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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] Reference

These same mountains remained in the orbit of seasonal transhumance for colonial farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Berlinale 2009 - Forum Lineup (The Ultimate List)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack] Reference

Neither do peasant families separate for months in the ancient ritual of transhumance, when men and boys would spend much of the year following great herds of sheep across the Italian peninsula, leaving their wives, daughters, and youngest sons behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Siena] Reference

Fête de la transhumance le 13 juin 2009 à l'Espérou, commune de Valleraugue.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Actress, Model and Designer Molly Sims Partners With Plastics Make it Possible(SM) and Gen Art for 'New Garde' Fashion Show] Reference

The museum does also ventures into the ethnographic, covering the transhumance lifestyle followed until early in the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philobiblon] Reference

The custom of transhumance has declined, but the caves are still an irreplaceable element in the making of both Cabrales and the other great Asturian blue cheese, Gamonedo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The “transhumance des troupeaux” is described in verse full of vigorous movement; the sheep are taken up into the Alps for the summer, and then in the fall brought down to the great plain of the Crau near the Delta of the Rhone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Mistral]

He cited the partnership between COMINSUD / MBOSCUDA and the FGF Secretariat covering the support to the participatory and consensual management of nature resources in cattle raising zones, transhumance corridors and protected areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up Station Mountain Club] Reference

They do transhumance: Grazing in special, wet areas during dry season.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 How to select your cattle] Reference

The annual parade is held to protest the destruction of the countries ancient transhumance routes, used to lead livestock to the high pastures for the summer months in late May and early June and back to lower pasture in early October.    From Wordnik.com.  [AOL News] Reference

This is called transhumance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference