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

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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 superintendent asked Covel to create a park naturalist program for that city. He continued as the Park Naturalist until his retirement in 1975. This is his memoir of his time as the naturalist at Lakeside Park's Wildlife Refuge.  

Inscribed by author, dated January 1979.