1.   Food is at its most plentiful during the short summer months, when the snow melts to uncover the higher mountain pastures.

2.   He found Ms. Redd gathering cattle in a mountain pasture.

3.   In the lush woods and blossoming mountain pastures along the border with Albania, there is no talk of cease-fires or peace negotiations, only of war and victory.

4.   The convoy wove past lush mountain pastures, pine forests, whitewashed farmhouses, a small mosque with a slender minaret.

5.   Welch Brogan climbed out of a battered vehicle in the middle of a mountain pasture, cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled.

6.   With a relaxation of military tensions in the divided state, nomad families are returning more frequently to mountain pastures with their herds.

7.   Hundreds of people lined the sidewalks to watch shepherds herd the merinos on their way from summer mountain pastures in northern Leon to the warmer Extremadura in the southwest.

8.   Local television broadcast images of mountain pastures, farmland and sheep and cows covered by silty gray ash in areas north and west of the volcano.

9.   The steep slopes and high mountain pastures were good for little else but subsistence-farming and small-scale cattle raising.