The region covered includes not just the valley floor wetlands but also the adjacent farmlands and the slopes of Mount Barouk.
Barley and wheat farming take place alongside sheep grazing on the adjacent farmland.
As the mining and textile industries have declined, Menstrie has become a commuter dormitory, spreading over the adjacent farmland.
It comprises extensive areas of intertidal mudflats and saltmarsh with adjacent farmland.
The hounds strayed onto the line from adjacent farmland.
Migrating waterfowl were drawn to the region by the water and by greatly increased food supplies from the adjacent farmlands.
Today all the produce the family grows on adjacent farmland is organic, as is much of the other produce it sells.
The town is currently rural, with adjacent farmland and forested Ozark ridges.
A public hearing on Nov. 14 to discuss possible rezoning to allow operations on adjacent farmland drew hundreds of people.
To create a new dune on which to perch the expanded house, bulldozers dug out 30,000 cubic yards of dirt from the adjacent farmland.