Audible Mount Diablo

CONCLUSION   Learn how to tell a hawk from a vulture in this final episode of our Black Diamond Mines guide. Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

STEWARTVILLE SADDLE  Dream of future hikes at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve with tips from the experts. Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Produced by Joan Hamilton. 

OVERLOOK   B ig swaths of land around Mount Diablo State Park are protected. But there are still development threats. Learn about successful efforts to curb sprawl in this episode of our  guide to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Ad...

JUNCTION  Here's where Coulter pines make their famous last stand at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Produced by Joan Hamilton. 

BRIDGE    California's shrub lands may seem boring, but they shelter plenty of flowers and birds. Learn to spot bush poppies and orange-crowned warblers in this episode.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken La...

MANHATTAN TRAIL   How grazing—done right—can benefit park wildlife, including tiger salamanders and burrowing owls. Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

STEWARTVILLE VIEW  Globalization transformed Contra Costa County almost a century ago. Learn how it happened as we look out over one of the park's most beautiful valleys.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo, with help from Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and East Bay Regional Park District. Photos by Scott Hein. Featuring Seth M. Adams, Heath Bartosh, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Ken L...

PIONEER POND  Epizoochory? What the heck is that? And what's it got to do with Velcro? Find out in this episode of our tour of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special than...

KREIGER PEAK  Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve has been growing recently, and new trails will be open soon. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks to East Bay Regional Park District. 

CUMBERLAND TRIAL  Parks are great. But connected wildlands are even better, for wildlife and people. In this episode of our Black Diamond Mines guide, learn about how you can make the wide open spaces of eastern Contra Costa County part of an epic Bay Area trek. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams...

COAL CANYON In this shady canyon, we learn about the botanical riches of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. It's a place where East meets West, where plants from the Central Valley and the coast all thrive and where botanists made a remarkable discovery in 2016. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth A...

NORTONVILLE  Sarah Norton was the beloved midwife who delivered Nortonville's babies. She planted a cottonwood to celebrate each new life. Childhood was short for the boys, who were useful in narrow mine shafts. They started their perilous work at age 8. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin...

ROSE HILL CEMETERY  Find out why daffodils are the flower of choice in the Rose Hill Cemetery—and all about the history of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks t...

POND LIFE  A soggy day in March is the perfect time to check out the park's ponds.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks to East Bay Regional Park District. 

SOMERSVILLE TOWNSITE   Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve is a stunning park today, but in the 1860s its coal fueled California's early industrial development. Watch segment 1 of our 16-part series about "the rocks, the mines, and nature's remarkable recovery." Follow us to enjoy a new Bay Area adventure every week. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive As...

INTRODUCTION  Prepare for a hike at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve—a paradise in the springtime, rich with history any time of year. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks to East Bay Regional Pa...

ENJOYING THE PARK   Mount Diablo State Park is a great place to walk, run, hike, camp, climb, picnic, paraglide, stargaze, and ride bicycles or horses. But what's most popular? Heading to the top for a glimpse of wild California. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.   

PRESERVATION  You've read plenty of stories about losing America's wild places. Here' a story about winning.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

EARLY TOURISM   Starting in the 1870s, people with dollar signs in their eyes began selling Mount Diablo to tourists and investors. Fortunately, they were not successful, and today we have 110,000 acres of wildlands within an hour's drive of a major metro area. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.

COAL MINING Just northeast of Mount Diablo, thin layers of "black diamonds" in the sandstone paved the way for California's industrial development at the end of the 19th century. East Bay Regional Parks naturalist Mike Moran tells the story. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

WHITNEY SURVEY Imagine it's 1860. In 14,000 miles of exploration up and down California, a survey led by Josiah Whitney decides that Mount Diablo is key to understanding the geology of the entire Coast Range.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.

THE MOUNTAIN'S NAME  How did Mount Diablo get its name? And why do people keep trying to change it? Anthropologist Beverly Ortiz tells the linguistically mixed-up story behind the name we use today.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

NATIVE PEOPLES  "Mount Diablo was our sacred mountain at one time, and still is in my heart," says Dry Creek Pomo Lucy Smith.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

WILD PIGS  Wildlife columnist Gary Bogue explains how wild pigs first came to California and what's being done to reduce the numbers of these hairy rototillers on Mount Diablo. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. 

POISON OAK  In the 1820s a botanist innocently sent some poison oak seeds back to London to be planted in Victorian gardens. Oops! In this segment, Save Mount Diablo's Seth Adams explains what   hikers need to know to avoid—and appreciate—this problematic plant. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.