pastoral lands
Shepherd's rolling terrain
Pastoral lands are areas used for grazing livestock rather than growing crops.
The term appears in agricultural policy, land management, and environmental contexts: The drought devastated pastoral lands across the region.
Pastoral here derives from pastor in its original sense of shepherd, connecting to the care and feeding of animals on open rangeland.
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- sheep grazingFlock consuming pasture
- herdingManaging animal groups
- green pasturesFertile grassy land
- grasslandsOpen grassy terrain
cow · rural life · country life · livestock · field · commons · lea · wide open spaces · open range · bucolic · pastoralism · lambs · savanna · ranching · meadow · nomadism · green · cattle
- Alpine terrainpeaks, valleys, glacial lakes, mountain passes, ridges
- UNESCO sitesMachu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Versailles, Great Wall, Stonehenge
- RomaniaBucharest, Transylvania, Carpathian Mountains, Danube River, Danube
- sheep farmingsheep farming, sheep ranching, shepherding, shearing, lambing
- Australian Mapscolonial maps, survey maps, regional maps, antique maps, district maps
- indigenous landsancestral lands, ancestral territories, ancestral territory, traditional territories, native lands
pastoral landscropland
Land for growing produce
arable land · farmland · orchards · vineyards · tillage
pastoral landsurban areas
Developed, populated regions
cities · industrial zones · metropolitan areas · built environment · industrial parks
pastoral landswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
virgin forest · old-growth forest · primeval forest · nature reserves · forest