Susan Rita Schrepfer

Susan Rita Schrepfer (1941–2014) was an American environmental historian.

Life Susan Schrepfer was born in San Francisco in 1941, and grew up in Gilroy, California. After graduating from high school in Gilroy, she worked as a farm labourer before studying history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, receiving her AB in 1963. She gained an MA (1965) and a PhD in history at the University of California, Riverside. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, she was given only months to live in 2008. She is survived by her daughter, Amy, and step-daughter, Cecilia. She was predeceased by her partner, Edward Ortiz.

Works (with Edwin van Horn Larson and Elwood R. Maunder) A history of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1923 to 1973. Upper Darby, PA.: Forest Service, 1973. The fight to save the redwoods: a history of environmental reform, 1917-1978. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. (ed, with Philip Scranton) Industrializing organisms: introducing evolutionary history. New York: Routledge, 2003 Nature's altars: mountains, gender, and American environmentalism. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2005