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Interviewed by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Meet Frank How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I moved to the Bay Area with my wife, Nell, in 1980…

Monthly Stewardship Update Written by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Big News! Staff continued to get more native plants in the ground and spent a day propagating Contra Costa manzanita…

Interviewed by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Meet Dan How long have you lived in the Bay Area? Except for two years attending the University of Colorado, I’ve lived my…

On December 18, 2021, people who love the outdoors met to clean up the Castle Rock area of Pine Canyon. Save Mount Diablo organized the second-ever volunteer cleanup effort in…

Contra Costa manzanita (Arctostaphylos manzanita spp. laevigata) is a rare native shrub found almost entirely on Mount Diablo and its surrounding foothills. Although the plant is rare, it’s not federally…

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…

“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…

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…

Stewardship Update Written by Haley Sutton, Land Stewardship Associate Atmospheric River Marks (Hopeful) End to Seasonal Watering Our mighty watering crew continued nurturing volunteer tree seedlings and native plants before…