1.   At one extreme are pure, natural ecosystems like an alpine meadow or a mangrove swamp.

2.   Of all the sporting activities available during the afternoon, one pleasure is walking through alpine meadows.

3.   The area also has a range of fragile eco-systems and rare plants including button grass, alpine meadow and snow gum.

4.   Alpine meadows of Whitewater Pass offer some of the finest backcountry camping and scrambling in the southern Selkirk Mountains.

5.   As the stage passed Swiss alpine meadows where newly cut hay scented the air green, Zuelle apparently thought of his nearby home and dropped out.

6.   A steep five-mile hike leads into alpine meadows near the snout of a glacier.

7.   But beneath snow-capped peaks, green forests and flowering alpine meadows churns one of the biggest chains of active volcanoes in the world.

8.   For example, alpine meadows in the rockies and coral reefs off Florida and Hawaii could suffer irreversible damage, the report concludes.

9.   Ione Chase used to hike with her family all over Mount Rainier, where she fell in love with its alpine meadow.

10.   Near Tahneta Pass, we located through binoculars a band of white Dall sheep in a slanting alpine meadow.