preservation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-021985",
  "term": "preservation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Protection of large areas of land from development.\n\n2. The provision of adequate facilities to protect, care for, or maintain records.\n\n3. Specific measures, individual and collective, undertaken to maintain, repair, restore, or protect records. See also RECORDS MAINTENANCE AND USE.\n\n4. The removal of a threat to, or preventing the decline of, aquatic resources by an action in or near those aquatic resources. This term includes activities commonly associated with the protection and maintenance of aquatic resources through the implementation of appropriate legal and physical mechanisms. Preservation does not result in a gain of aquatic resource area or functions.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "see_also": [
    "Retention"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary",
    "Records Glossary",
    "Aquatic Resources Awareness Course for Real Estate Appraisers Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/preservation/"
}