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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…

Thanks in part to a team of renowned botanists contracted by the East Bay Regional Park District
to survey wildland vegetation in Eastern Contra Costa County, the endangered wildflower Mount Diablo
Buckwheat was identified as thriving at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in Antioch, California.

From savethebay.org: With nearly all of the votes counted, it appears that voters throughout the Bay Area last night approved Measure AA, a first of its kind regional ballot initiative that will…

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…

Protecting a national-park sized wilderness around Mount Diablo requires a huge community of folks working together over a long period of time. And yet land conservation is comprised of a…

Curiosity shapes the world around us. Science is the pursuit of comprehension, driven by observation and intrigue. Boiled down to its most basic components, science is a guess and check…

Over the course of her numerous bushwhacking and scree surfing botanical expeditions as a graduate student in the late 1930’s, SMD’s co-founder Dr. Mary Bowerman recognized the importance of preserving…

The Conservation Buyer Program will generate important revenue for Save Mount Diablo to invest in protecting and preserving more land in the Diablo Wilderness. Save Mount Diablo envisions a permanently…