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la chaume des collines sèches

English translation: dry hill grassland/pasture

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French term or phrase:la chaume des collines sèches
English translation:dry hill grassland/pasture
Entered by: claude-andrew

16:30 Aug 25, 2013
French to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / Walk description
French term or phrase: la chaume des collines sèches
Last question! Re-phrasings welcome.

Vignoble et Collines Sèches
Vignoble et Collines Sèches comprend deux circuits de promenades, celui du Strangenberg et celui du Bollenberg.
Dans les deux cas, le promeneur est conduit dans un espace naturel remarquable qui accueille notamment plusieurs types d’orchidées, des géraniums sanguins, des tulipes sauvages et muscaris, ainsi que, pour la faune, des huppes fasciées et des lézards verts.
Outre cette richesse faunistique et floristique particulière, le promeneur aura aussi le grand plaisir de butiner l’ambiance paysagère singulière que représente **la chaume des collines sèches**.
claude-andrew
France
Local time: 00:59
dry hill grassland
Explanation:
more general - not necessarily pasture

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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2013-08-26 19:12:51 GMT)
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The Hardt region of Alsace in north-eastern France, is subject to a particularly
dry sub-continental climate...
The project aimed to restore the clearings of dry grassland that remained
through direct intervention and to find a permanent solution for their long-term
survival. It also proposed to identify forestry practices that best favour the
conservation of the biological interest of the oak-hornbeam forests and the open habitats within them, while still accommodating economic objectives in the most productive areas.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index....
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Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:59
Grading comment
Thanks Rachel
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6dry hill pastures
Wendy Streitparth
3 +1arid hillside grazing land
kashew
3dry hill grassland
Rachel Fell


Discussion entries: 2





  

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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
arid hillside grazing land


Explanation:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rga_0...
Une haute colline du livraďoís. 779. « chaume », selon le terme du paysan, c'est-à-dire un pacage sans eau d'irrigation, un pacage sec où deux ou trois ans les ...

kashew
France
Local time: 00:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaume_(montagne)
1 min
  -> Thanks, Phil
neutral  AllegroTrans: I am not sure that "arid" is a correct description of Alsace wine country - to me this is a fertile place where it rains reasonably often
6 hrs
  -> Yes, arid a bit strong I agree
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
dry hill pastures


Explanation:
Same meaning, but slightly different

Needing little soil, it is found often in the crevices of granite walls, as well as in dry hill pastures, rocky places and by roadsides.
http://www.ask.com/question/is-foxglove-grows-wild-in-britai...

399 crossbred ewes from 2 birth years were raised on irrigated or dry hill pastures.
http://eurekamag.com/research/021/651/recurrent-kind1-c20orf...

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 00:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bashiqa: I think this fits in better.
27 mins
  -> Thanks, Bashiqa
neutral  philgoddard: This is just a rephrasing of kashew's answer, and your references simply prove that "dry hill pastures" exists as a phrase in English, which we already know.
54 mins
  -> I thought that finding the most suitable phrase is what translating is all about.
agree  Yolanda Broad
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Yolanda
agree  ormiston
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, ormiston
agree  AllegroTrans: This fits better: "arid" is somehow wrong for Alsace, it's not exactly the Gobi Desert
4 hrs
  -> Many thanks, Allegro Trans. Who knows how much longer this may apply!
agree  James Nixon
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, James
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
11 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gilou
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
dry hill grassland


Explanation:
more general - not necessarily pasture

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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2013-08-26 19:12:51 GMT)
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The Hardt region of Alsace in north-eastern France, is subject to a particularly
dry sub-continental climate...
The project aimed to restore the clearings of dry grassland that remained
through direct intervention and to find a permanent solution for their long-term
survival. It also proposed to identify forestry practices that best favour the
conservation of the biological interest of the oak-hornbeam forests and the open habitats within them, while still accommodating economic objectives in the most productive areas.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index....


Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thanks Rachel
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