Paul L. Errington

A professor of wildlife biology at Iowa State University, Paul L. Errington (1902­–1962) was listed by Life magazine in 1961 as one of the top ten naturalists of his day. In addition to Of Men and Marshes, Muskrats and Marsh Management, and Muskrat Populations, he was the author of some 200 scientific articles and three posthumous books: Of Predation and Life, The Red Gods Call, and A Question of Values. In 1962 he received the Wildlife Society’s Aldo Leopold Award for his contributions to wildlife conservation.