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Eighty miles southeast of San Jose lies Pinnacles National Park, over 26,000 acres of oak savanna, grasslands, chaparral, and unusual volcanic rock formations. The park is situated in the southern…

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…

Monthly Stewardship Update Written by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Big Trees at Irish Canyon Irish Canyon is part of the Morgan Territory and Marsh Creek region near Clayton. Protected…

Interviewed by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Meet Rosemary How long have you lived in the Bay Area? Thirty years. I grew up in Sacramento, left the state for college…

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.

On December 7th, Mount Diablo’s Beacon will be relit by survivors of Pearl Harbor.

This event is co-sponsored by Save Mount Diablo; California State Parks; California State University, East Bay Concord Campus; and the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, Chapter 5. We invite you to attend the ceremony to pay tribute to the lives that were lost and honor our surviving veterans of Pearl Harbor.

Weather permitting, the ceremony will be held outdoors at the California State University, East Bay Concord Campus, at 4700 Ygnacio Valley Road in Concord. The California State University system requires all campus visitors to be vaccinated or have a valid exemption.

Viewing of the new USS Arizona exhibit at the CSUEB Concord Campus will be available from 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM as well as 45 minutes post ceremony.

The outdoor ceremony will commence at 3:45 PM.

“Nature is so much bigger than us.” In our most recent Conservation Collaboration Agreement (CCA) with De La Salle High School, over 40 students planted native plants and prepared a…

The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, by John Rollin Ridge, set many precedents: it was the first novel published in California, as well as the…

Western monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) have decreased in startling numbers in recent years. Though genetically the same species as their eastern counterparts, the western population travels from the Rocky…

This summer we announced that we are committing to protecting planting 10,000 native trees and plants in the next 10 years. We’re working to restore natural habitat and sequester carbon…