People Are for the Birds: The Adventures and Observations of the West's First Municipal Park Naturalist at America's First Waterfowl Refuge--Lake Merritt California and type specimen

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With evocative drawings by artist and illustrator Margaret La Farge

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People Are for the Birds: The Adventures and Observations of the West's First Municipal Park Naturalist at America's First Waterfowl Refuge--Lake Merritt California and type specimenGood used paperback. Moderate sun fading, shelf wear, and spotting to page edges. In 1935 Paul Covel was asked to join the staff of the Oakland, California Public Museum as a botanist and general assistant. For several years before World War II he also delivered a series of regular weekend lectures about the waterfowl of Oakland's Lake Merritt, under the auspices of the Lake Merritt Breakfast Club. When the war ended, Oakland's new city park