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Dear Friend of the Mountain, This year, Save Mount Diablo celebrates forty-five years of caring collaborations and relationships that have produced important and lasting conservation successes for our beloved mountain,…

“Discover Diablo” is Save Mount Diablo’s new program of free guided public hikes. One major component of Discover Diablo will be an annual schedule of free public hikes publicized at…

I grew up in Marin County thinking Mount Tamalpais was the greatest mountain ever. When I moved to Contra Costa County in the early 1990’s, Mt. Tam was still the…

Thanks to a team of botanists contracted by the East Bay Regional Park District (EPRPD), the endangered Mount Diablo Buckwheat was identified as thriving at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve…

How do we go about the business of saving the mountain? What exactly is it we are saving these days? Our land conservation work is an effective but convoluted mix…

Ten years after we began our work on the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) Area Reuse Plan, changes to this more than 5,000-acre swath between Concord and Pittsburg south of…

On April 22, 2016, Earth Day, Save Mount Diablo (SMD) had the privilege of signing our inaugural Conservation Collaboration Agreement with Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School (JMIS), a public middle school…

Save Mount Diablo began just as many land trusts do; with a concern for the impact of growth and development on an area or a natural feature. In our area,…

Chances are you live in close proximity to Mount Diablo and have special connections to the mountain. For those of us in the Bay Area, in particular, the mountain is…

The first time I saw Mount Diablo I was a student at Berkeley, helping deliver furniture to a home in Lafayette. It was 1970. As we traveled Highway 24 and…