Which of the following statements would the authors of BOTH texts most likely agree with?

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Text 1: Rewilding — returning land to a wild state and reintroducing lost species — can restore ecosystems quickly. Where wolves came back, overgrazing dropped and forests regrew within a decade.

Text 2: Rewilding sounds appealing, but reintroducing predators near farms invites conflict. Ranchers who lose livestock rarely share conservationists' enthusiasm, and their cooperation is essential for any long-term plan.

Accepted Answer

A. Reintroducing predators can produce meaningful changes to a landscape.. Text 1 says predators like wolves triggered forest regrowth, and Text 2 accepts that reintroducing predators has real effects (it causes conflict near farms) — both agree predators produce meaningful landscape change (A). B and C conflict with Text 2, and D overstates Text 1's more limited example.

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B. Rewilding should proceed regardless of local objections. — Text 2 says rancher cooperation is essential for any long-term plan, so its author would reject moving ahead over local objections.

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C. Ranchers benefit financially from the return of wolves. — Text 2 states the opposite — ranchers lose livestock to returning predators and are therefore unenthusiastic.

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D. Ecosystems recover fully within a single decade. — Text 1 describes forests regrowing within a decade in one case; that's a single example of recovery, not a claim that ecosystems fully recover that fast, and Text 2 never endorses it.

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Answer: A. Reintroducing predators can produce meaningful changes to a landscape.

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