▶ Your Answer : The reading passage and lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or the policy for natural burn should be abolished. The article strongly postulates that keeping a policy will destroy the eco system of Yellowstone National Park irrevocably. On the other hand, the listening adamantly delineates that Keeping a policy will make a recovery of Yellowstone National Park, eventually beneficial for all. First and foremost, according to the author of except, most of areas of vegetation was destroyed due to natural burn. Moreover, author mentioned that devastating areas and black trees had to be confronted by visitors. Of course, the water system as well, rivers and steams were also damaged heavily. As a result, author claims that Whole eco-system of park was in bad condition due to natural burn. Nonetheless, the lecture offsets these points by declaring that although natural burn had caused the trees and rivers to be damaged, park is in a recovering course. lecture argues that the parts of dead trees are making soil more fertile. because of dead trees, land are recovering from the burns, which can result to vegetation of the forest. At last, speaker argues that it is actually acclerating the recovering process of the Park. The professor in the lecture further points out that small animals were attracted to Park. The animals which were not even part of the original eco-system of park made their way to the park. for example, rabbits were rare in the past, but their coming to the park, because of growing underground vegetables of park. These claims refuse the writer’s implications that animals in park were vanished due to natural burn. The text lastly insists that visitors of park was decreased, none of visitors wanted to see devastating condition of park at their vacations. Nevertheless, the speaker in lecture counters these points asserting that the economic crisis was the main cause of decrease in visitors. In addition, speaker argues that economic crisis made a hard time citizens overcoming and this effected the scores of visitors. As a result, citizen’s could not afford to visit the park due to crisis. |