Which of the Following Examples Poses the Greatest Potential Threat

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following examples poses the greatest potential threat to biodiversity?

• A) replanting, after a clear cut, a monoculture of Douglas fir trees on land that consisted of old-growth Douglas fir, western cedar, and western hemlock
• B) allowing previously used farmland to go fallow and begin to fill in with weeds and then shrubs and saplings
• C) lack of regulations to limit the harvest of the medicinal plant ginseng
• D) constructing oil and gas pipelines through old growth forest

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