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East Contra Costa County boasts an impressive amount of park accessibility with state and regional parks—but access to nature isn’t equal. Pittsburg is one of the most deprived cities of…

CONTRA COSTA, STANISLAUS, AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES—Explore some of the East Bay’s premiere hiking and natural areas with Save Mount Diablo in 2023, including places rarely open to the public.…

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” —Nelson Henderson  We recently planted our 2,000th plant for our 10,000 Trees…

“He works harder than anybody in the organization,” Land Conservation Director Seth Adam said. “He gets up at 4:00 in the morning, is here by 6:00 or 6:30, works all…

This year, Save Mount Diablo is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. What will the next 50 years have in store? There are many new challenges that the organization faces. As climate…

At our inception in 1971, Mount Diablo State Park was just 6,788 acres, and today, as a result of the work we and our partners have done, it’s nearly 20,000…

As a part of our 50th anniversary celebration, the Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley created a three-part series. It’s…

As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, we’ve been working with UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library to create a series of oral histories of the empowering…

When asked what advice he would give to the next generation of environmental advocates and activists, Seth quoted his friend and activist Bob Walker: “Find something that you’re passionate about…

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