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In this final episode, Save Mount Diablo unfolds an audacious plan for winning broader protection for the Diablo Range in an era of climate change. The "Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope" series explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love. Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.

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CONDOR COUNTRY  In Pinnacles National Park, author and conservation biologist Joseph Belli “babysits” condors as a volunteer for the National Park Service. In this episode he teams up with soulmate Seth Adams of Save Mount Diablo to survey wildlife in the park and beyond.   The "Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope" series explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love. Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Photos by Scott Hein and...

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HENRY W. COE STATE PARK: How fire made a big wilderness better.  The sixth in a series of Save Mount Diablo's videos about the  mysterious, little-known 200-mile long Diablo Range.  Viewers venture into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love—and vital as refuges for plants, animals, and people in a time of climate change.  Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.

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COYOTE CONNECTIONS  Keeping cities safe and wildlife healthy. The fifth in Save Mount Diablo's series, "Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope," about the mysterious, little-known, 200-mile long Diablo Range. The series  takes viewers into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love and vital refuges in a time of climate change. Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.

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OHLONE WILDERNESS How Wildlife Fared After the 2020 Fire  The fourth in a series of Save Mount Diablo's videos about the  mysterious, little-known, 200-mile long Diablo Range.  Viewers venture into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love.  Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.

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CORRAL HOLLOW How a ranching family helped build a park.  The third in Save Mount Diablo's series, "Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope," about the mysterious, little-known, 200-mile long Diablo Range. The series takes viewers into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love and vitally important in a time of climate change. Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.

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Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range With the help of ranchers, naturalists, scientists, and land managers, this 9-part series showcases the mysterious, little-known 200-mile long Diablo Range after the massive fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love, vital to providing a refuge for plants, animals, and people in a time of climate change. With conservation efforts accelerating, this part of the inland Coast Range is fast becoming California's next big conservation story.  Photos by Scott Hein...

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MORGAN TERRITORY, where the SCU fire hit home. The second in a series of films about the  mysterious, little-known 200-mile long Diablo Range.  The films take viewers into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love, vital to providing a refuge for plants, animals, and people in a time of climate change.  Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by Phil Heywood. Writing, production, and narration by Joan Hamilton.  

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Early-blooming flowers bring beauty to the forested understory of Mount Diablo State Park. Here are a few that pop up January through March. A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association film by Kendall Oei, produced in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Part of the Wild Mount Diablo series. 

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Join Wild Mount Diablo as we look back at some of our favorite photos from 2023. It's exciting to imagine what our intrepid photographers, Wally De Young and Kendall Oei, will come across this year!!   A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association film produced in partnership with Save Mount Diablo.

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As we head into another fire season in the Bay Area,  learn how a small 2013 blaze increased knowledge about life on the East Bay's most iconic peak. 

Presented by Save Mount Diablo, in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

Featuring Heath Bartosh, Seth Adams, Robert Doyle, Lindsey Hendricks, Brian Peterson, Cyndy Shafer.

Photographs: Scott Hein, Stephen Joseph, Troy Montemayor.

and Seth Adams, Heath Bartosh, Steve Edwards, Brad Heckman, Helovi/istock, Joan Hamilton, Shawn Hanrahan/Texas A&M, Jepson Herbarium, Al Johnson, Neal Kramer/Strybing Arboretum, SWKrullImaging/iStock, Kit Leong/iStock, Marshman, Carl Osborn, Bill Sattler, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District, Arturo Reina Sanchez, Spyglass Hill, Terry Tomkins/USDA, Charles Webber/Cal Academy of Sciences, Westphalia/iStock 

Music: Phil Heywood, Steve Arnold, Podington Bear

Illustration: Laura Cunningham, Bay Nature Magazine

Production, Narration: Joan Hamilton. First published in 2019.