I’m happy to help. In order to find the answer that is the principle the situation most closely conforms to, we need to first understand the argument in the passage. What is it saying?
We learn what HCPs are, how they work, and their overall goals. We also learn why both environmentalists and property owners like aspects of HCPs.
E is incorrect because we didn’t learn from the passage what the MOST effective means of preserving endangered species is. The passage just doesn’t speak to that question.
But we did learn that both environmentalists and property owners like aspects of HCPs, which conforms to the principle that laws should be fashioned in such a way as to reconcile both groups’ interests, as answer D states. That is why that answer is correct.
