preservationist
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someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
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David Irvin subsequently met with Sen. Mitchell personally and with aides to the Maine congressional delegation, which was reluctant to take a stand against the preservationist pressure groups or the National Park Service.
The answer is for the biosecurity plan to only focus on species which are obvious pests and abandon the preservationist agenda of eradicating non-native species.
The developer who destroyed, then built over, big swaths of Brooklyn snagged top honors from a preservationist group this week.
But a hockey preservationist he is not.
Preservationist works — modern traditional stories *Lenihan, Eddie and Carolyn Eve Green.
The New York State Preservationist, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall–Winter 2002, "Falling for Niagara", pp. 14, 15 Preservation efforts continued well into the 20th century.