Susan Freinkel is an award-winning journalist and author with an abiding fascination with the natural and built environments - and particular with the humans who passionately forge relationships with those environments.

 

She has published two books on this topic: “American Chestnut: American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree” about species loss and “Plastic: A Toxic Story,” about the rise of plastic and its impact on our lives and the planet.

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That same interest drives her Substack newsletter, 1,017 acres: Life in the Park, about Golden Gate Park.

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