Reading Response Essay

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The reading passage indicates that three kinds of damage caused by “let it burn”policy.However,the speaker in the listening disagrees with the reading by setting the following three points.

First of all,the writer in the reading suggests that the fire caused damage to the park’s trees and vegetation.On the contrary, the professor in the listening points out that the plant became more diverse because the fire made an opportunity for plants that could not grow otherwise. Some smaller plants that needed open and shaded space to grow.After the fire,the trees were burned out so that those plants had a better environment. And some plants species won’t grow up unless they’re contacted with high levels of heat.The fire could make them started appearing.
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Last but not the least,the reading passage demonstrates that the fires had negative consequences for local economy as a tourist attraction.In contrast,the lecture challenges the reading by stating that the fires like 1988 Yellowstone fire would be a trouble for tourism if they happened every year.But there are many factors for this massive fire to happen such as low rainfall, unusually strong winds and dry undergrowth.It is occasional to have such a massive

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