Sentence examples for alpine settlements from inspiring English sources

It seems ever more evident that the distinguishing characteristic of Alpine settlements can today no longer be the simple fact of standing at the feet of the mountains which have always dictated their forms and their horizons.

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The classic example is found in Switzerland and the neighbouring Alpine regions where the existence of pastoral settlements in the valley is wholly dependent on the maintenance of continuous forest cover on the foothills of the great peaks.

The respondents attributed higher aesthetic values to the Alpine landscape in respect to areas with settlements, infrastructure or intensive agricultural use.

Rural settlements predominate in the valleys, where characteristic Alpine villages extend along the base of slopes.

In the first settlement below Jyanta La, when the tumbling alpine stream had become a gentle river, we encountered the first internal-combustion engine of the trip, a motorcycle, probably brought in by helicopter.

Furthermore, our three-year data of long-distance movements and complementary information from the baseline survey indicate a decline of long-distance movements to the desert steppes (winter) and alpine belts (summer) in favour of year-round grazing of pastures near settlements.

In a high altitude region such as the Silvretta Alps (Switzerland/Austria), past and extant settlement activities are known to have had large influences on the alpine flora and vegetation.

After the retreat of the Alpine glaciers, 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, the valleys were inhabited by Neolithic peoples who lived in caves and small settlements, some of which were built on the shores of the Alpine lakes.

With its scrubby sun-baked chaparral, stately groves of pine, fir, and sequoia, and expanses of alpine woodlands and meadows, Yosemite National Park preserves a Sierra Nevada landscape as it prevailed before Euro-American settlement.

As a tribute to the first Walser settlers, Alpine walkers in the 1980s set up the Walserweg ('Walser way') – a series of hiking trails linking the old settlements, and stretching from the Valais to the Austrian-German border, where the Walser migration ended.