It was York, Harrogate, the upland moors and the lowland dales.
Brood management would guarantee that if more than one hen harrier nested in any 10km/sq area of grouse moor, government scientists would remove additional nests, raise the chicks in captivity and release the young birds into lowland areas.
Mawle had restored heather moorland, "rewetting" his land by blocking ditches to restore blanket bog, which is rich in rare sphagnum mosses, and also allowed his river to break out of its artificial banks and meander down the valley, reducing flood risk by slowing the progress of water into lowland Yorkshire.
Their import was ended, however, by the imposition of duties and a flood of cheap fabric – cheaper even than poorly paid Bengali artisans could provide – from the new steam mills of northern England and lowland Scotland that conquered the Indian as well the British market.
Set back from the beach, they're surrounded by a sea of lowland fynbos vegetation, home to Cape sugarbirds, orange-breasted sunbirds and rare long-billed larks.
CogentSI, an economics consultancy, says that the city's economy has grown by 3.9% a year over the past decade, more than twice the Scottish average.Nor has the boom attracted only lowland Scots.
But even where governments claim a forest, the result can be the same; 63% of the lowland parts of West Kalimantan's national parks were illegally cleared by loggers between 1985 and 2001.At least it was obvious who was to blame for the clearance.
China has a rich mix of habitats, from upland steppe and desert, to mountain fir and spruce forests, lowland tropical rainforest, and wetlands.
That would reward their backers: traditionally excluded indigenous groups, lowlanders, remote villagers of the hills, and the low-caste, such as dalits.One is a group from the Terai, Nepal's populous, lowland part bordering India.
Many of the beneficiaries would be migrants from the Altiplano, with little knowledge of lowland farming.
Mr Morales's power grab has alarmed lowland provinces such as Beni, whose leaders are profoundly out of sympathy with his radical economic and social agenda.
