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Birders in Contra Costa County gathered on December 18, 2021 to participate in the annual Christmas Bird Count with the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society. Nearly 80 participants of all skill…

On December 18, 2021, people who love the outdoors met to clean up the Castle Rock area of Pine Canyon. Save Mount Diablo organized the second-ever volunteer cleanup effort in…

Contra Costa manzanita (Arctostaphylos manzanita spp. laevigata) is a rare native shrub found almost entirely on Mount Diablo and its surrounding foothills. Although the plant is rare, it’s not federally…

By Susan Ingersoll In early December, at Save Mount Diablo’s Dr. Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium, UC Berkeley PhD student Erin Person presented preliminary results of Dining with Friends,…

We’ve just reached our goal of planting and protecting 1,000 native trees and plants this year! Our 1,000th plant is a sycamore sapling that was planted at Marsh Creek 5.…

North Peak Ranch rises from Marsh Creek Road to Mount Diablo’s North Peak, and it borders Mount Diablo State Park. Like the Concord Mt. Diablo Trail Ride Association property and…

By Joseph Belli   Among the little-known pockets of the Diablo Range is the Panoche region… an austere landscape of wide panoramas, sparkling night skies, and a population no higher…

By Seth Adams, Land Conservation Director, Save Mount Diablo   It was supposed to be 108 degrees, so we postponed to the following weekend, when it was only 99. Joseph…

Save Mount Diablo’s accomplishments this past year cap a half-century of success in protecting land on and around Mount Diablo. December 7 marks our 50th anniversary of working to save…

This year’s Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium once again took place virtually. We had a fantastic lineup of presentations from Save Mount Diablo grant recipients and other researchers that…