Now, at a time that would seem inauspicious as well as unappealing, given the glut of new American oil on the market (and falling oil prices), the Obama administration, despite a recent bow to Arctic preservation, stands at the edge of once again green-lighting a Shell foray into Arctic waters.
What's more, by changing the rules for animal preservation, it stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
After years of ongoing restoration and preservation projects, Muscoot stands as a model of an early 20th-century farm.
As if conscience-prompted, he adds a formulaic tribute, "So, with the inducement of pride, duty, patriotism and personal preservation, they will stand together until the last".
We suggest that these differences would be related to management history, which may have enhanced the preservation of beech stands in larger forest landscape units.
They have loud brays (which can carry three kilometres), cast-iron stomachs (able to extract sustenance from the unlikeliest material), long memories (remembering places up to 25 years later, apparently), and a certain bloody-minded sense of self-preservation – all attributes that have stood the British in sterling stead down the years.
Cox also drafted what he calls the Falealupo Covenant between himself, the village and the other parties that stood to gain from preservation of the forest's botanical treasures.
Preservation of the redwood stands in California is considered one of the most substantial conservation contributions of the Boone and Crockett Club.
A lawsuit by the Coalition of 9/11 Families seeking to compel the preservation of the concrete floor slab where 1 World Trade Center stood has been dismissed by Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich of the State Supreme Court.
Workers at the souvenir shop where the group staged its first auction stood with their arms crossed, unmoved by the cause of historical preservation.
The committee's members have already tagged remnants of the public art that once stood at the World Trade Center, like Fritz Koenig's "Sphere," for preservation.
