All of the following are true regarding the Endangered Species Act (ESA) , except:
A) the act is sometimes called the "roadblock" statute.
B) under the language of the statute, a "taking" includes actions against plants and animals that "harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill trap, capture, or collect...."
C) under its statutory language, a landowner subject to the ESA cannot oppose it by claiming that it is a regulatory taking.
D) it has been successfully used to halt major projects, such as building a dam and halting logging in old-growth forests.
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