It lives in ponds, lakes, canals, marshes, forests, pasture or agricultural land, sometimes in acid pools on upland moorland or coastal areas.

It is related to the German words Alpe, Alm or Alp ( f., Old High German alpâ ), meaning an " upland pasture ".

Today much transhumance is carried out by truck, with upland flocks being sent under agistment to lower-lying pasture during winter.

Breaking ground in June, 1866, they created the large Long Meadow out of hilly upland pasture interspersed with peat bogs, they moved and planted trees, hauled topsoil and created a vast unfolding turf with trees placed singly and in groups to approximate the English pastoral style of landscape which had emerged in England in the previous century.

Today most of the land is upland pasture, along with a few forestry plantations.

Close to two million game birds were harvested on 1,500 commercial and private shooting preserves, and on State Game Commission-controlled upland game areas during the 1960-61 season.

Many prospecting areas were in dangerous, upland country, and, although mineral exploitation was presumably one of the main reasons for the Roman invasion, it had to wait until these areas were subdued.

The first 10 national parks were designated as such in the 1950s under the Act in mostly poor-quality agricultural upland.

Several species of trout were introduced to Australia and New Zealand by amateur fishing enthusiasts in the 19th century, effectively displacing and endangering several upland native fish species.

The abbacy of Santa Maria di Bonarcado contained more central, upland regions where a pastoral economy dominated and women were less economically useful ; among children in that region, sex ratios are highly skewed in favour of men.

Several Methodist and Baptist churches were established in the early 19th century, mostly in the upland areas of the county.

While deer, elk, pronghorn, cougar, bear and upland game bird populations thrive today, some of these animals were remarkably scarce 200 years ago.

In contrast farming in the hilltowns was of a hardscrabble subsistence nature due to thin, rocky soil following Pleistocene glaciation and a slightly cooler climate, although upland fields were sometimes less subject to unseasonal frosts.

Large areas of upland Britain, it pointed out, were ‘ waste ’ and depopulated, and trees would not only increase their productiveness but ‘ demanded a higher rural population ’ than sheep rearing.

They were constantly moved, were forced to do the hardest physical labour, and worked in the most inhospitable, fever-ridden parts of the country, such as forests, upland areas, and swamps.

The two groups had little initial interaction in America, as the 18th century Ulster immigrants were predominantly Protestant and had become settled largely in upland regions of the American interior, while the huge wave of 19th-century Catholic immigrant families settled primarily in the Northeast and Midwest port cities such as Boston, New York, or Chicago.

In the upland valley of the Tanagrus were Atina, Forum Popilii and Consilinum ( near Sala Consilina ); Eburi ( Eboli ) and Volceii ( Buccino ), though to the north of the Silarus, were also included in Lucania.

The South Wales Valleys and upland mountain ridges were once a very rural area of great natural beauty, noted for its river valleys and ancient forests and lauded by romantic poets such as William Wordsworth as well as poets in the Welsh language, although the interests of the latter lay more in society and culture than in the evocation of natural scenery.

As more Malay settlers arrived from distant lands, more settlements were founded until even the upland regions of the peninsula were settled.

Early large-scale development was spurred by the neighborhood's upland topography, which provided a breezy relief from the hot, fetid air in the lowlands that were then the built-up area of Washington, D. C.

In prehistoric post-glacial times when sea levels were low and the islands were connected, the ravine was part of a valley leading to upland Corsica.

In ancient Ireland, cows were driven out onto upland pastures during the summer months and special places were designated for their milking.

The flow in the River Towy would have been unable to sustain such an abstraction were it not for the release of water from the upland reservoir.

According to the Bible, Solomon rewarded Hiram I for certain services by giving him the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali.

One cultural pattern consists of the formerly Indianized, rice-growing peasants in the valleys and plains of Sumatra, Java, and Bali ; another cultural complex is composed of the largely Islamic coastal commercial sector ; a third, more marginal sector consists of the upland forest farming communities which exist by means of subsistence swidden agriculture.

* Moor or moorland, an uncultivated upland area that is characterized by low growing vegetation on acidic soils

After Rheged was incorporated into Northumbria, the old Cumbric language was gradually replaced by Old English, Cumbric surviving only in remote upland communities.

It is an upland plateau scored by numerous wadis, most tending northeastward toward Iraq.

These high mountains are incised by steep river valleys and upland areas that border the central plain.

The Zagori area is a scenic upland plateau surrounded by mountain on all sides.

The River Irwell, a long tributary of the River Mersey, runs southwesterly through Bacup towards Rawtenstall from its source by the town's upland outskirts at Weir.

The Grand Sluice is disguised by railway and road bridges, but it is there, keeping the tide out of the Fens and twice a day, allowing the water from the upland to scour the Haven.

The geologically old, heavily eroded range of the Westerwald is in its northern parts overlaid by a volcanic upland made of Neogene basalt layers.

West of the Escarpment is the beginning of the " upland " Texas Hill Country, characterized by rocky terrain with thin layers of soil lying on top of limestone.

Richland is located in the middle of what was once the Gull Prairie, an upland area relatively free of trees and maintained by natural and man-made fires.

Originally called New Durham Gore because of rocky upland areas, or " gores ," the town was settled in 1770, mainly by farmers because the highland areas provided less frost.

Orographic precipitation, also known as relief precipitation, is precipitation generated by a forced upward movement of air upon encountering a physiographic upland ( see anabatic wind ).

The urban structure of Oldham is irregular when compared to most towns in England, its form restricted in places by its hilly upland terrain.

In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas.

# Upland lakes and reservoirs: Typically located in the headwaters of river systems, upland reservoirs are usually sited above any human habitation and may be surrounded by a protective zone to restrict the opportunities for contamination.

" This turnover event saw the replacement of specialized and highly ornamented centrosaurine and lambeosaurines by more primitive upland dinosaurs in the south, while northern biomes became dominated by Triceratops with a greatly reduced hadrosaur community.

" Wold " is used as the name for various open rolling upland areas in the North of England, including the Yorkshire Wolds and the Lincolnshire Wolds, although these are, by contrast, chalk uplands.

This system involves clearing a piece of land by setting fire or clear felling and using the area for growing crops of agricultural importance such as upland rice, vegetables or fruits.

Reclamation of land for agriculture by converting marshland to upland was historically a common practice.

The conversion of marshland to upland for agriculture has in the past century been overshadowed by conversion for urban development.