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In 2021, we noticed an unusual event on Mount Diablo, in the wild and biodiverse Knobcone Point area. Huge swaths of knobcone pine trees, Contra Costa manzanitas, and Mount Diablo…

It was in December of 1971, when the Bay Area was rapidly expanding and development was creeping up Mount Diablo’s foothills, that Art Bonwell and Mary Bowerman founded Save Mount…

It was a windy morning when the students arrived at Mount Diablo, entering Curry Canyon Ranch. They stepped out onto the trails surrounded by blue oak woodlands and golden grasses,…

Rare “Fire Follower” Wildflowers After close to 400,000 acres of the northern Diablo Range was scorched by the catastrophic 2020 SCU Lightning Complex wildfires, we saw an opportunity. We wanted…

Thanks to generous contributions from our community, the Firedoll Foundation, and the Resources Legacy Fund, we’ve successfully raised the $500,000 needed to purchase and restore the Krane Pond property! In…

From learning about medicinal herbs found within Mitchell Canyon to scaling rocky cliffs in Pinnacles National Park, our Discover Diablo program has offered numerous and varied free excursions. Participants have…

You’ve probably heard the statistics about how kids don’t spend enough time outside these days, and about how much time they spend in the digital world. We’ve been working to…

Cooper Ogden is a freelance drone photographer who has been working with Save Mount Diablo to document the East Bay’s landscapes for years. His photography helps us advocate for the…

On a mid-May afternoon, Save Mount Diablo Land Programs Director Sean Burke headed out to check on some local nest boxes for American kestrels. These boxes have been instrumental for…

In 2020, the landscape of Del Puerto Canyon and much of the area around it was transformed. That August, the fourth largest wildfire in recorded California history blazed through the…