The most typical landscape for the Kemeri National Park is the forest. The forest biodiversity is very high but it does not offer the most exciting views due to the lack of perspective, everything is very close – a peculiar tree trunk, abundance of berries and mushrooms and the whisper of leaves in the trees.
The most beautiful landscapes of the national park are water-related. The raised bog's unique landscape with its dwarf pines and the maze of bog lakes can be seen from the Lielais Ķemeru tīrelis boardwalk. Also various lake landscapes of the Ķemeri NP are interesting – such as the reed-bed maze of Lake Kanieris and picturesque shores of the deep river-like Lake Valgums . The coastal landscape is also very diverse – such as both the densely populated coast of Lapmežciems , Bigauņciems and Ragaciems, and the forested dunes along Gausā jūdze. Krāču kalni and Zaļā kāpa are interesting as evidence of various development stages of the ancient seas.
The landscape policy of the Ķemeri National Park is ‘to maintain and facilitate landscape diversity through protection of valuable natural and cultural landscapes and restoration of the degraded landscapes' (Nature Protection Plan). To preserve a diversity of landscapes it is important to prevent the overgrowing of open landscapes – agricultural lands – by scrubs. It can be achieved either by a continuous management – grazing and mowing – or by more exotic methods – introducing large free-ranging herbivores. Now everyone can see Heck cattle and konik horses in the Dunduru meadows and Lielupe floodplain meadows. Landscape forest cutting is an interesting demonstration of the landscape diversity for the park's visitors, as it reveals the views of the Labais bog from the Kūdra to Kalnciems road. The restoration of River Slampe meanders and floodplain meadows and newly created wetlands in the Great Kemeri bog's former peat extraction site also make significant landscape changes.
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