U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census. Cultural conservation is a concept for organizing the profusion of private and public efforts that deal with traditional community cultural life. It envisions cultural preservation and encouragement as two faces of the same coin. Publications of the American Folklife Center, no. Conservation enhances the potential of a renewable resource, efficiently moving it through a cycle of use, renewal and re-use.
Conservation entails careful attention to the co-evolving features within a system.