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 thanks to East Bay Regional Park District.
Feb 11, 2019•2 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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.
Feb 11, 2019•2 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks t...
Feb 11, 2019•2 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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 Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special tha...
Feb 11, 2019•5 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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 Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Heath Bartosh, Ken Lavin, and Ray Sullivan. Special thanks to East B...
Feb 11, 2019•5 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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 to East Bay Regional Park District.
Feb 11, 2019•4 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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.
Feb 11, 2019•3 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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 Association. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Featuring Seth Adams, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, Scott Hein, Hea...
Feb 11, 2019•5 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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 Park District.
Feb 11, 2019•6 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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.
Feb 11, 2019•4 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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.
Feb 11, 2019•4 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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.
Feb 11, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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.
Feb 11, 2019•2 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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.
Feb 11, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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.
Feb 11, 2019•3 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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.
Feb 11, 2019•4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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.
Feb 11, 2019•3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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.
Feb 07, 2019•2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
TARANTULAS “We never think of pulling on our boots in the morning without first shaking them, for fear of tarantulas.” While exploring Mount Diablo, 19th-century scientist William Brewer picked the one thing to be frightened of that couldn’t hurt him. Learn the truth about tarantulas from MDIA naturalist and master storyteller Ken Lavin. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.
Feb 06, 2019•4 min•Season 1Ep. 6
RATTLESNAKES “People are terrified of rattlesnakes,” says wildlife columnist Gary Bogue. “But they can only strike at 3 miles an hour, which is a walk for a human.” Learn how to safely observe these fascinating but poisonous reptiles. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.
Feb 05, 2019•2 min•Season 1Ep. 5
MOUNTAIN LIONS Think you saw a mountain lion? Well, maybe. But most people who report a Bay Area sighting have actually seen a golden retriever or a domestic house cat. Gary Bogue describes how to identify this elusive predator—and what to do in the unlikely event of a too-close-for-comfort encounter. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.
Feb 04, 2019•3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
WILDLIFE Standing between the foggy Pacific Coast and the Central Valley, Mount Diablo has shady forest habitat and hot, dry chaparral. That makes it ideal habitat for wildlife, including coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, foxes, and skunks, as well as the densest population of golden eagles on the planet. Wildlife columnist Gary Bogue offers a brief introduction to the Mount Diablo menagerie. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association....
Feb 03, 2019•2 min•Season 1Ep. 3
MOUNT DIABLO 101 Take a hike with Seth Adams, who’s been roaming Mount Diablo on behalf of the conservation organization Save Mount Diablo since 1988. As Seth explains, the mountain was sacred to Native Americans, they saw it as the place where the world was created. For the Europeans who came later, it was a navigational landmark and place to map the Bay Area. Late in the 19th century, its coal fueled California’s industrial development. Today, it’s a real wilderness within an hour’s drive of m...
Feb 03, 2019•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
INTRODUCTION Why is this 3,849-foot mountain so central to California's natural and cultural history? In this 15-part series, discover the lore and legends of Mount Diablo State Park and surrounding wildlands. Presented by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association.
Feb 01, 2019•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
