Hmong traditionally farm upland areas where the CIA set up clandestine operating bases during the war and, incredibly, 35 years later, tiny pockets of Hmong fighters are still battling the Lao army.
In other cases, ridgetop forests burned when lower elevation land was set afire, and some uplands were used for pasturing.
On our most recent visit, the lobster mango salad was layered with baby spinach and citrusy Thai vinaigrette and the hefty, rich cylinder of foie gras set off by tendrils of upland cress and zingy rhubarb-ginger "jam".
The Velykyi Glybochok Palaeolithic site near Ternopil town (Podolia Upland) contains a set of cultural layers in a sequence of loess and fossil soils.
Sat 10am-1pm; East Oxford Primary School, Union St, OX4 1JP; eastoxfordmarket.org.uk Uplands Market, Swansea A relatively new market set up with the aim of making Welsh produce available to the community.
A glacial lake set among ancient limestone pastures and upland hill farms, it is home to rare plants and animals including stonewort, sheltering pea mussels and the three-spined stickleback.
Set in a cork oak and chestnut forest, and cooled by an upland breeze, the hotel has a fine view over the village of Alájar and strives to be eco-friendly with recycled water, solar power and a reliance on local food supplies.
Though the sequencing depth for each accession used in our study is relatively low, the data set itself is informative enough to address the questions we wanted to address about upland rice adaptation.
The experiments were set up between 1954 and 1972 across a range of vegetation types typical of much of upland Britain.
This would allow a jurisdiction to set aside land and make efforts to purchase development rights or use other methods to preserve upland habitats at high enough percentages and distances from the breeding ponds to support R. aurora.
