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Enkidu Posted 18 years ago
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our actions reduce the likelihood that recovery like that experienced at cedar creek can happen as it ordinarily would =?

what does it mean? Sentence is about patchy forests and protection for enviroments
  

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Our actions (=The things we do) reduce (=lessen) the likelihood (=the probability) that recovery like that (=the recovery) experienced at Cedar Creek (=the same kind of recovery as the recovery we noted at Cedar Creek) can happen as (=in the way that) it (=recovery) ordinarily (~ usually) would (happen) . ___ There is a certain probability that recovery (similar to the Cedar Creek recovery) can happen in the way it would usually happen. But our actions make that probability lower.

  • Our actions (=The things we do) reduce (=lessen) the likelihood (=the probability) that recovery like that (=the recovery) experienced at Cedar Creek (=the same kind of recovery as the recovery we noted at Cedar Creek) can happen as (=in the way that) it (=recovery) ordinarily (~ usually) would (happen) .
  • ___ There is a certain probability that recovery (similar to the Cedar Creek recovery) can happen in the way it would usually happen.
  • But our actions make that probability lower.
  • CJ
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Our actions (=The things we do)

reduce (=lessen)
the likelihood (=the probability) that
recovery
like that (=the recovery) experienced at Cedar Creek
(=the same kind

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