Jeanne Thomas: Supporting Save Mount Diablo
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…
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John Kiefer: Papa John and the Mountain
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…
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Scott Hein: Save Mount Diablo Photographer, Naturalist, and Board Member
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…
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A Brief History of Native Peoples around Mount Diablo, and Treating Their Cultural Artifacts with Respect
By Queenie Li and Sean Burke We are incredibly lucky to have such a diverse number of native peoples who have lived in California and along the entire West Coast.…
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Voices of Save Mount Diablo: Our 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
How Do You Inspire the Future? When Save Mount Diablo was co-founded 50 years ago by Art Bonwell and Mary Bowerman, they gave a voice to the mountain at a…
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Art Bonwell: An Early Conservation Hero
“Helping to create Save Mount Diablo and arousing public and legislative support for the mountain has been the most important work in my life—I feel that I have contributed to…
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Save Mount Diablo Teaches about Land Conservation at CSU East Bay This Spring
Save Mount Diablo is working to build the bench for land conservation in our area as well as connect with more diverse communities—so when Ted Clement was asked again to…
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Fifty Years of Conservation: Stories from Save Mount Diablo
December 7, 2021, is Save Mount Diablo’s 50th anniversary. We plan to celebrate the entire next year, through December 7, 2022. To commemorate this milestone, we created a special 50th…
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Half a Century of Preserving Land: Save Mount Diablo’s 50th Anniversary
Save Mount Diablo’s 50th anniversary is on December 7, 2021. We will be celebrating this very special anniversary from December 7, 2021 to December 7, 2022, with memorable events and activities throughout the year.
We’ll offer 50th anniversary hikes and outings, and we’ll invite our communities to a fabulous 50th anniversary celebration in September of 2022. Our 50th anniversary logo is based on one of Save Mount Diablo’s earliest artistic renderings from the early 1970s; it captures the spirit of the time, and honors the past while inspiring the future.
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Save Mount Diablo Offers Land Conservation Course at CSU East Bay
This fall semester at California State University East Bay, Save Mount Diablo staff are teaching a 16-week course. It’s entitled History of Land Conservation Nationally and in the Mount Diablo…
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