conservationist
[kon-ser-vey-shuh-nist]
noun
a person who advocates or promotes conservation, especially of natural resources.
Origin of conservationist
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The bear will gorge himself on these cherries, and he is no conservationist.
Camping at Cherry PondHenry Abbott
He was never a conservationist, never a business man; in the pine woods and on the Yukon he was only after the cream.
Paul Bunyan and His LoggersOtis T. Howd
There is no effort on the part of the Conservationist to interfere with any duty that the State ought to and can perform.
Every true Conservationist believes in developing the country rapidly as possible.
He admitted to his friend, conservationist Gifford Pinchot, that the problem would have to be faced someday, but not during a war.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.
conservationist
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