Some ways to lend a hand to the natural world this spring.
Tag: Mount Diablo
Winter Issue 2025
The Patwin People and Solano County Open a Park
Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park in Fairfield. Trail: 4.4 mi, 744 ft elevation gain, loop
Conservation
An Indigenous Garden Takes Root
A $900,000 EPA grant funds a Cafe Ohlone x California State University collaboration.
Spring Issue 2020
Photo Gallery: Diablo Range Biodiversity
The Diablo Range is a biodiversity hotspot harboring numerous rare, endemic, or disjunct species. Here are some of the plants and animals you can find there.
Art and Design
Mount Diablo, a Story of Place
This is an excerpt from photographer and longtime Bay Nature contributor Stephen Joseph’s new book, Mount Diablo, A Story of Place and Inspiration. The book consists of hundreds of Joseph’s photographs, taken over three years on the mountain, and features essays by local conservation leaders.
Ask the Naturalist
What are Some of the Best Lesser-Known Nature Places in the Bay Area?
Everyone’s heard about Muir Woods. Where can you go to get away from the crowds and still see the nature that makes Northern California is famous?
Fall Issue 2018
Tarantulas Emerge to Wander the Landscape in the Autumn
Coyotes and predatory wasps can’t stop the Bay Area blond tarantula from searching out mates in the autumn.
Summer Issue 2017
Presumed Extinct, a Wildflower Reappears on Mount Diablo
The Mount Diablo Buckwheat disappeared in the 1930s. It was thought to be extinct. A single population was rediscovered in 2005. And then last year botanists found a new population numbering in the millions. How has this rarest of rare plants survived?
Winter Issue 2017
Dark Treasure: Mount Diablo’s Lost Coal Mines
An excerpt from Sylvia Lindsteadt’s Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area on the lost coal mines of Mount Diablo.
Botany, Diablo Recovery
In the Third Spring After the Morgan Fire, Just Add Water to Mount Diablo for Flowers
With 38 inches of rain at the top of the mountain since last summer, the bloom has been great all over Mount Diablo.
