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Alexandra Dawson; lawyer specialized in conservation

By Emma Stickgold

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 02, 2012

Alexandra D. Dawson, a prominent conservation attorney whose career traced the history of environmental organizations in Massachusetts beginning in the late 1960s, “was a force of nature,’’ said environmental lawyer Gregor McGregor. An expert on the fine details of laws governing land use and the air and sea, Mrs. Dawson could also could break down legal language into prose anyone could understand. An early employee of the Conservation Law Foundation, she went on to help start environmental studies programs at Antioch University New England in New Hampshire.

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