On land, barely travelled roads link quiet settlements of thatched and whitewashed houses, moorland valleys and rocky mountains.
Marian Mahoney, governor of HMP Moorland, said the riots had a "profound effect" on the prison.
The road goes through open sections of country as well as moorland and hills.
The pumping operation is currently centred on the areas of Curry Moor, Moorland and Langport.
In summer the heather moorland is a billowing carpet of purple, in autumn the woodlands are ablaze with colour.
Stour Valley is associated with the painter John Constable while Exmoor is renowned for its wild moorland.
This practice began the spread of peat blanket bog which nowadays covers much of the higher moorland.
But some experts believe pickings could be slim as thirsty birds desert traditional moorland and head for water.
The pair were provided with clothing to walk off the moorland before arriving in Bala by about 10:30 GMT.
About 55 prisoners at Moorland Young Offenders Institution near Doncaster refused to return to their cells on Wednesday evening.
Concessions are also being made on the contentious issue of the right to ramble over privately owned mountain, moorland and heath.
But when exactly it went missing remains a mystery, says Thomas Battle, the current director of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard.
Effective pressure to end grouse-shooting is likelier to come from the people who live in moorland areas than from anti-shooting city folk.
You hug the ridge of a huge inland cliff, looking out over a sea of moorland and trees towards the Scottish uplands.
At the same time, police were called to reports of shots and a car being set on fire on Moorland Road in Maghull.
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That has made Ireland, with its large tracts of sparsely populated moorland, rugged mountains and windswept valleys, a perfect setting for many of these challenging, unusual sports.
Moorland Prison is 10 miles from the centre of Doncaster, and is a category C training prison with a capacity for 1, 006 inmates, including young offenders.
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Moorland is part of a cluster of South Yorkshire prisons - along with Hatfield and Lindholme - due to transfer into the private sector this year.
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Dartmoor National Park Authority also discourages people from feeding ponies, and asks them to take litter home and to keep to the 40mph limit on moorland roads.
Around the northern coast there are miles of quiet, narrow roads where cyclists can steep themselves in mountain and moorland scenery, and there is excellent wild camping just about everywhere.
Factors in their decline include the loss of moorland nesting habitat and feeding range, eggs and young being eaten by foxes, crows and other predators, and illegal persecution.
It will restore the condition of the moorland habitats, including the promotion of the semi-wild Exmoor Pony for grazing as an integral part of the management of the moors.
Brian Moorland, a spokesman for Travelwise NI, a government campaign to save energy and cut pollution, said he was pleased the hospital was helping them to highlight their car-sharing scheme.
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Ms Harris impressed on the pupils the importance of peat in sucking up the carbon in the atmosphere, and also storing water, thus slowing flow into the local rivers, which have moorland sources.
Starchaser 3 made a short but dramatic flight last March when instead of climbing to high into the sky as planned it veered off course, crashed and set fire to the surrounding moorland.
Pupils are looking at what effect an ongoing scheme to close up the ditches, started two years ago, is having on the local environment and find out more about the impact of human activities on the moorland.
Over the past four years, the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership has blocked moorland drains with peat dams to try to restore important blanket bog habitats in the North Pennines, and prevent the erosion of the peat.
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