A city planning agency wants to restore an abandoned industrial area to its original natural state, including restoration of its original biodiversity.Based on methods typically used in restoration ecology, they would likely carry out all the following activities except
A) planting the region with introduced (non-native) plants.
B) removing polluted soil and replacing it with clean soil.
C) revegetating the area with a variety of native plants.
D) reintroducing animal species that originally lived there.
E) contouring the land to restore the area's original water flow.
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