Last week, we were delighted to share our new Diablo Range Revealed film, Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range, with an audience of more than 300 people.
This film is the first full-length movie ever created about the mysterious, little-known 200-mile Diablo Range, California’s next great conservation story.
It’s the culmination of three years of groundbreaking work exploring the range through our Diablo Range Revealed project.
Diablo Range Revealed seeks to introduce people to California’s Diablo Range, which stretches for more than 200 miles from the Carquinez Strait to Antelope Valley in Kern County.
Left to right: Deputy Secretary of Biodiversity and Habitat Meghan Hertel from the California Natural Resources Agency, General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority Andrea Mackenzie, Save Mount Diablo Executive Director Ted Clement, Save Mount Diablo Land Conservation Director Seth Adams, and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. Photo by Mary Nagle
With the help of ranchers, naturalists, scientists, and land managers, Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020.
It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love.
Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope takes the viewer on a journey through the Diablo Range, starting in Morgan Territory and Corral Hollow, then traveling through Ohlone Regional Wilderness, Coyote Valley, Henry W. Coe State Park, Pinnacles National Park, and “through the door” in Del Puerto Canyon.
The film premiere was quickly sold out! Photo by Mary Nagle
The film ended in a segment titled “Hope: and Audacious Plans” that maps out Save Mount Diablos’ strategies for winning broader protection for the entire range in the era of climate change.
Save Mount Diablo recently expanded its work to cover the entire 12-county Diablo Range.
Our film premiere started with inspiring speeches from
- Save Mount Diablo Executive Director Ted Clement,
- State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan,
- Deputy Secretary of Biodiversity and Habitat Meghan Hertel from the California Natural Resources Agency, and
- General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority Andrea Mackenzie.
We’re incredibly grateful for the leadership of each of these speakers, who have served as local conservation leaders in the era of climate change.
After the film, the experts featured in the film held a Q&A panel, answering a flurry of questions from viewers.
The premiere concluded with a Q&A panel with the experts featured in the film. Left to right: Photographer Cooper Ogden, Audible Mount Diablo Producer Joan Hamilton, conservation photographer and Board member Scott Hein, Save Mount Diablo Land Conservation Director Seth Adams, conservation biologist Joseph Belli, Save Mount Diablo Land Programs Director Sean Burke, East Bay Regional Park District Wildlife Program Manager Doug Bell, and UC Berkeley Associate Professor and entomologist Dr. Kip Will. Photo by Mary Nagle
Thank you to everyone who attended this sold-out event, and dove into the Diablo Range with us during the premiere of this 83-minute film.
Read the film premiere program here.
Now you can watch the film on our YouTube channel. Dive into the wonders of the Diablo Range!
Special thanks to Heath Bartosh, Mori Constantino, Lindsay Dillon, Charlotte Graham, Bruce Hamilton, Laura Kindsvater, Marsha Matsuura, Don Mosier, Connolly Ranch, California State Parks, East Bay Regional Park District, National Park Service, Evan McWreath/Ventana Wildlife Society, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, and Stanislaus County Parks and Recreation.
Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range is sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.
