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.
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