In the United States, the need to
protect plant and animal species has become a highly controversial and sharply
political issue since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. The
act, designed to protect species’ living areas, and policies that preserve land
and forests compete with economic interests. In the 1990’s, for example, the
woodcutters in the Western United States were challenged legally in their
attempt to cut trees for timber in the Cascade Mountains. The challenge was
mounted to protect the endangered spotted owl(猫头鹰), whose remaining population
occupies these forests and requires the intact, ancient forest for survival. The
problematic situation set the interests of environmentalists against those of
corporations and of individua更多"阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判"的相关试题:我来回答: 提交
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