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By Susan Ingersoll In early December, at Save Mount Diablo’s Dr. Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium, UC Berkeley PhD student Erin Person presented preliminary results of Dining with Friends,…

This year’s Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium once again took place virtually. We had a fantastic lineup of presentations from Save Mount Diablo grant recipients and other researchers that…

By Staci Hobbet, Lead, Peregrine Team in Pine Canyon Peregrine versus Prairie Falcon Encounter Mom was delivering a pigeon for lunch when the attack came. It was clutched in her…

With over 2,500 recorded observations stretching across the 620-square-mile SCU Lightning Complex fire footprint, Save Mount Diablo’s 2021 BioBlitz concluded with exhilarating findings. By Denise Castro Save Mount Diablo conducts…

Save Mount Diablo’s 2021 BioBlitz has made an exhilarating find! This dispersed two-week long BioBlitz covers the public parks and roads in the fire footprint of the nearly 400,000-acre SCU…

California has the highest lichen diversity in North America, including in chaparral environments like those found on Mount Diablo. However, like many other organisms, lichens are threatened by habitat loss,…

Photo: The Peregrine Team on a training hike in Pine Canyon Peregrine falcons now nest in the cliffs of Pine Canyon, a direct result of ongoing conservation efforts since 1970,…

A current study by San Francisco State University master’s degree candidate Carly Miranda aims to research the genome of native thistles in the genus Cirsium, many varieties of which are…

Story by Joan Hamilton Hugh Safford is the regional ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region. Years of experience have honed his ability to look at a blackened…

At Save Mount Diablo’s Dr. Mary Bowerman Science and Research Colloquium, held online in early December, UC Berkeley PhD student Erin Person presented the results of her study of California…