Between the 1950s and the 1980s,the "new forest"-management strategy of the Forest Service shifted from
A)extracting resources to protecting the ecological health and diversity of forests.
B)protecting the ecological health and diversity of forests to extracting resources.
C)wilderness protection with no commercial logging to widespread commercial extraction.
D)widespread clear-cutting and reduction of total forested areas to a great expansion of forested land.

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The question states that the "new forest" management strategy shifted between the 1950s and 1980s. Option A correctly states that the shift was from extracting resources to protecting the ecological health and diversity of forests. This shift was a result of growing concerns about the negative impacts of logging and other forms of resource extraction on the environment, as well as new scientific understandings of the importance of forest ecosystems for biodiversity and ecological stability.

Between the 1950s and the 1980s,the "New Forest"-Management Strategy of the Forest