* Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests: These Mediterranean-climate forests occupy the coastal lowlands and valleys of western Anatolia bordering the Aegean Sea.

The region differs from the southern coast by the presence of shrubs, equotorial dry forests, mangrove forests, tropical valleys near rivers such as the Chira and the Tumbes, and is blessed with clear, sunny skies for most of the year.

Clear skies, beautiful warm valleys, eroded terrains with reddish colored sands, rice fields, palm trees, savannas, bushy forests, dense rivers, beautiful warm turquoise beaches, orangey or yellowish terrains, clearer sands and a sun that hits like the African plateau,

Further, southwest from the forests are Darkover's highlands, plains, salt marshes and arable river valleys.

Where it occurs in the wild it is found infrequently in deciduous forests and valleys on acidic loess ( i. e. fine, silty soil ) with good drainage.

It is occupied by mountains and forests, but has valleys and coastal districts of great fertility.

The representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, in scrublands, on wet fields and valleys, at the sea coast and in marine areas, and in swamps and as an element of mangrove woods.

In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune meh-neh-HOO-neh are said to be a people, sometimes described as dwarfs in size, who live in the deep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian Islands, far from the eyes of normal humans.

Proto-Maya, the common ancestor of all Maya languages, was probably spoken in west-central Guatemala, around the highland pine-oak forests of the Cuchumatanes mountain chain: north of the Motagua and Grijalva river valleys, through patches of cloud forest, and down to the edge of the tropical forest lowlands near the Ixcán and Chixoy ( Negro ) rivers, which flow into the Usumacinta River.

Natural vegetation is mostly prairie, but stream valleys often have fine forests of cottonwood, oak, elm, ash, pecan, sycamore, and other species.

The hills and valleys were cleared of their old-growth forests by the end of the 19th century.

The old-growth forests were harvested in the mid-to-late 19th century during the lumber era that swept throughout the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania.

At this time, and for hundreds of years thereafter, it was a magnet for migration of Han Chinese from the north, who cleared most of the forests and began farming rice in the valleys and plains.

Pine and birch forests are common in the valleys in Storfjord, and the more rare calcareous pine forests, with several orchids, are also present.

The valleys in the catchment area of the Mulde were presumably used from the end of the last cold stage as access routes into the Ore Mountains that was covered in dense, ancient forests.

* Tumbesian-Andean valleys dry forests ( Colombia, Ecuador, Peru )

Heavy summer fogs frequently cover the western ocean-facing slopes and valleys, resulting in drizzle and fog drip caused by condensation on the redwoods, pines, and other trees, which sustains the moisture-loving redwood forests.

In between are mountains, valleys, forests, waterfalls, rocky coastlines and a tundra-like plateau known as the Cape Breton Highlands.

South Shropshire is a land of mountains, valleys, hills, moors, forests and low grade farmland.

In 1497 a battle took place at the Cosmin Forest ( the hilly forests separating Chernivtsi and Siret valleys ), at which Stephen III of Moldavia ( Stephen the Great ), managed to defeat the much-stronger but demoralized army of King John I Albert of Poland.

The " cerrado " landscape is characterized by extensive savanna formations crossed by gallery forests and stream valleys.

The vast white pine forests in the upper valley provided the forest products that built the towns along Lake St. Croix, Minneapolis and St. Paul ; the St. Croix along with the forest reserves in the river valleys of the nearby Red Cedar, Chippewa, and Rum provided supplies for the building of Winona, Minnesota, Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island, Illinois, and St. Louis.

Its land abounds in all the beauties of nature ; its climate is salubrious and temperate, neither too warm nor too cold ; it is a region of perpetual spring: there, in shady bowers, the nightingale ever sings ; there the fawn and antelope incessantly wander among the valleys ; every spot, throughout the whole year, is embellished and perfumed with flowers ; the very brooks of that country seem to be rivulets of rose water, so much does this exquisite fragrance delight the soul.

The first valleys seem to have joined forces willingly, but Sican was acquired through conquest.

South Africa is largely destitute of forest save in the lower valleys and coast regions.

Temperatures exceed in the lower elevations of interior valleys during mid-summer, with the record high of being held in Lytton on July 16, 1941.

Since then it has been eroding, creating dramatic incised valleys, and providing the sediment that gives the Yellow River its yellow color and that causes the flooding of the river in the lower reaches ( hence the river's nickname ' China's sorrow ').

Water in the area flows in deeply cut valleys, and irrigation is much more difficult than it is in the lower plain.

Sometimes, particularly in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valleys, soil salinity restricts the area of arable land and limits the size of the community dependent on it, and it also usually results in large unsettled and uncultivated stretches between the villages.

The valleys are often no lower in elevation than.

Outside the rice-growing lower valleys, hill populations suffer chronic food deficits.

Adequate snowfall in the Himalaya is important for sufficient spring and summer meltwater for irrigation in the lower hills and valleys.

In the early 4th century, the Bulgars would have been caught up in the Hunnic migrations, moving to the fertile lands along the lower valleys of the rivers Donets and Don and the Azov seashore, and assimilating some remainders of the Sarmatians

A portion of the Alans, however, after the Hun invasion retired into the plains adjoining Caucasus, and into the lower valleys of that region, where they maintained the name and nationality which the others speedily lost.

The Department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence has a Mediterranean climate in the lower valleys under one thousand metres in altitude and an alpine climate in the high valleys, such as the valleys of the Blanche, the Haut Verdon and the Ubaye, which are over 2500 metres high.

The lower valleys have 50 days of freezing temperatures a year, more in the higher valleys.

The county is generally composed of rolling hills and valleys with elevations ranging anywhere between 1100 and 2100 feet, although the land within a few miles of Lake Erie is generally flat and at an elevation of 1000 feet or lower.

The north-south orientation of the hill ranges of the valley means that they are exposed to moist monsoon winds which engulf the inner Himalayas and its lower valleys.

Even in generally warmer southern Europe, thick fog and localized fog is often found in lowlands and valleys, such as the lower part of the Po Valley and the Arno and Tiber valleys in Italy or Ebro Valley in northeastern Iberia, as well as on the Swiss plateau, especially in the Seeland area, in late autumn and winter.

Around 500 years ago, Khas from the Karnali-Bheri-Seti basin migrated eastward, bypassing inhospitable Kham highlands to settle in lower valleys of the Gandaki basin that were well suited to rice cultivation.

Large areas of almost pure pin oak occur on the " pin oak flats " of the upland glacial till plains or in the bottom lands of the lower Ohio and central Mississippi River valleys.

Many drowned river valley estuaries were formed between about 15, 000 and 6000 years ago following the end of the Wisconsin ( or ' Devensian ') glaciation when a eustatic rise in sea level of flooded river valleys that were cut into the landscape when sea level was lower, creating the estuarine systems.

Concerning valley forms, uniformitarianism depicted the cycle as a sequence in which a river cuts a valley more and more deeply, but then erosion of side valleys eventually flatten the terrain again, to a lower elevation.

Angers is in fact a hilly town, marked by a rocky promontory dominating the lower valleys of Anjou.

For thousands of years, the Northern Tablelands and these valleys were the tribal lands of the Dangaddi aboriginal people, whose descendants are now concentrated in the lower Macleay River.