When roads are built into previously inaccessible forest areas to harvest timber, all of the following things happen except:

a. the forest becomes fragmented
b. topsoil erodes
c. biodiversity is lost
d. sediment runoff occurs in waterways
e. the forest ecosystem remains intact with no disturbance or damage


E

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