All of the Following Are True Regarding the Endangered Species

question 25

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true regarding the Endangered Species Act (ESA) , except:

• A)the act is sometimes called the "roadblock" statute.
• B)under the language of the statute, a "taking" includes actions against plants and animals that "harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill trap, capture, or collect...."
• C)under its statutory language, a landowner subject to the ESA cannot oppose it by claiming that it is a regulatory taking.
• D)it has been successfully used to halt major projects, such as building a dam and halting logging in old-growth forests.