The self-guided walk offers spectacular views of the famous stretch of coastline as you walk through picturesque villages, mountain meadows and pine forests.

It's believed clear-cut logging contributed to the marmot's decline because razed forests resembled mountain meadows.

This ecoregion also contains mountain meadows, foothills grasslands, riparian woodlands, and alpine tundra.

The plant grows in wet mountain meadows at elevations of 800-1400 m (2650-4700 feet).

It occurs in wet mountain meadows and on the shores of lakes.

Below me stretched orange groves and rolling meadows, all protected by a nest of mountains that jabbed at the sky.

Who else sowed rolling meadows, built stone walls and planted hedgerows and copses?

The trees — oil and gas wellheads, clusters of metal pipes and valves about 8ft high — form a surprisingly unobtrusive presence among the cattle grazing in rolling meadows.

Aim for a lone hilltop oak overlooking rolling meadows.

The park has quiet wooded walking paths, rolling meadows, scenic vistas, open grassy areas for playing sports, and picnic tables.

Seagrass meadows are, for the most part, in recession across the globe due to human activity.

Seagrass meadows absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis.

Seagrass meadows are widespread across many parts of the world, but in recent decades about a quarter of coverage has been lost.

As a result, the seagrass meadows hold tremendous amounts of carbon, more than twice that of a forest of similar area.

Seagrass meadows have been calculated to store some 10 per cent of carbon in the oceans, and per hectare they hold twice as much carbon dioxide as rainforests.