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Edith Abigail Purer was California’s First Woman Professional Ecologist of 1930s, an advocate for California State Parks, an author as well as a San Diego Resident and San Diego Teacher.
The California natural ecosystems that Edith Purer studied (coastal sand dunes, vernal pools and coastal salt marshes) are among the most threatened, most rare, and most impacted natural environments of California and the United States. It is worthy at this time in California’s history and the current environmental crisis and concern for wetland losses, to revisit the life and research of Edith Abigail Purer. As an example of needed research, an effort to locate more of her photographs of 70 years ago would be finding “thousands of words” as in the colloquial phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” At least 8 photographs by Edith Purer are known to exist at this time.
~ Robert Jan ‘Roy’ van de Hoek, “Edith A. Purer.” Natures Peace, 2006. Read the full article at Edith Purer.
In 2024 the Coronado Public Library did an exhibit on her work. While the in-person exhibit is over, there is an online set of images from the exhibit at CoronadoLibrary.org.
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