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Brandt Weary, Entomologist, received a 2018 grant from Save Mount Diablo’s Mary Bowerman Science and Research Program and presented his research at Save Mount Diablo’s 5th Annual Mary Bowerman Science…

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY—Save Mount Diablo’s Discover Diablo is a free public hike program that offers an annual schedule of guided interpretive family walks, hikes, and property tours open to any…

Before you withdraw your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) this year from your IRA, be aware that if you are age 70½ or older, you can make direct charitable gifts from…

Interviewed by Roxana Lucero, Land Stewardship Associate About Judy How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I moved to California in 1998 and right away began weekly hikes…

Save Mount Diablo staff sing their new song “Mount Diablo in My Heart.” If the Mount Diablo area is in your heart, help us take care of it so it will take care of us. Please give to Save Mount Diablo’s Year-End Appeal.

On Tuesday, December 4, Save Mount Diablo’s 5th Annual Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium was held at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA. (The Center’s name honors the…

Thank you for making Giving Tuesday 2018 the most successful one for Save Mount Diablo yet! Giving Tuesday is a day when charities, families, businesses, and community members around the…

It’s easy to become frozen with fear by scary global reports, politcs, election results, man-made and natural disasters–but it’s important to remember that each of us has the power to…

Interviewed by Roxana Lucero, Land Stewardship Associate About Jasmine How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I’ve lived here since 1985. How did you learn about Save Mount…

WALNUT CREEK, CA—According to a new report, The Path Ahead, “Today, kids spend less time outside than prison inmates, with the average child playing freely outside for just four to seven minutes a day.” This report, commissioned by the REI Co-op, notes that the average American now spends about 95 percent of their life indoors. It further reports that we are becoming an “indoor species” which comes with consequences: “Our health and well-being may suffer. And the less we value our outdoor spaces, the less likely we are to protect them.”