The high-elevation areas around the Bitterroot peaks are rugged alpine parkland.
The state of West Virginia is 97% forested, and much of this cover is in high-elevation areas.
Larkspur is more common in high-elevation areas, and many ranchers will delay moving cattle onto such ranges until late summer when the toxicity of the plants is reduced.
Engineers also watch AMSL in high-elevation areas.
As I-26 crosses the Bald Mountains near the North Carolina/Tennessee state line, it travels through a relatively high-elevation rural area.
Birds like pipits and rosy finches, typically found in sparse, high-elevation areas, can be found in the low-elevation pyroclastic zone.
It was endemic to the high-elevation areas (above 1000 m) of Mt. Haleakala on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Accordingly, researchers are resurveying other high-elevation areas in Lassen and elsewhere, as others gear up to address questions about the effects of land-use patterns on ecosystems.
Vegetation in lower elevations tends towards sagebrush and open pine and deciduous, with high-elevation areas thick with coniferous forest.
A distinctly coloured bird found mainly in the high-elevation areas of the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Palnis and associated hill ranges.