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Tag: Mount Diablo State Park
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.
Stewardship, Wildlife
Log It or Leave It – Post-fire Debate over Burned Trees
As California’s fire season comes to a close, the fires that burned Yosemite and Mt. Diablo have left a landscape of burned trees, logs and soil. What to do next with that land, particularly in Yosemite, is a complicated decision, and politicians, land use managers, and ecologists have differing goals.
Farming and Ranching, Stewardship, Trails
New wildlife corridor created at foot of Mount Diablo
Roddy Ranch has been spared from development and is on it’s way to becoming a new park.
Fall Issue 2011
Planned Wilderness
In eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties, an ambitious vision for protecting big pieces of remaining open space is taking shape: From Black Diamond Mines and Mount Diablo to Brushy Peak and Sunol, several major agreements promise to replace ad hoc mitigation projects with a broader canvas of protected and connected habitat.
Trails
Three Peaks, One Day, No Car
This coming weekend, you could count yourself among an elite few folks who use only bicycles and mass transit to summit the Bay Area’s three major peaks in one day. Or join in for just one or two. Or follow along and learn just how far you can get without a car.
Winter Issue 2011
On Mount Diablo
Here, the sedimentary rocksof the town where I was raisedlift up, the layers of ancient seabed exposed in ridges running left to right, time turned on its side– Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene. At this height, the twilight rises, a tidal shadow … Read more
Summer Issue 2010
Tarantula Trekking
Come fall, the male tarantulas get restless and go looking for a mate. Look carefully, and you just might see some of the action.
Stewardship
State Park Heroes: The Volunteers
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently won an award form the National Park Trust (really), apparently for not closing the parks after all. But it’s the hundreds of volunteers across the region who are helping remaining staff keep things together, while they also fight for a permanent funding solution.
Fall Issue 2009
Local Artists Paint for Diablo
The BayWood artists’ October 2009 show will feature new works of Mount Diablo, and proceeds benefit Save Mount Diablo, which is working to raise funds for a critical new purchase by March 3, 2010.
