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How did protecting the spotted owl affect industry in Washington?

It required logging companies to cut down trees only in the Olympic National Forest.
It helped increase logging throughout the state and resulted in raised revenues.
It resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs in the logging industry.
It had little to no effect on Washington's logging industry.

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It required logging companies to cut down trees only in the Olympic National Forest
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The results, especially for the industry, are not pretty, and environmental groups might have a few things they'd rather forget too. The owl listing ended up cutting Oregon's total timber harvest in half. And the Northwest timber industry was decimated

Step-by-step explanation:

as explained above

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