DIABLO watch Save Protecting the Mountain Since 1971 Spring 2005 No. 39 The Mangini Ranch !!! Triple Threat !!! SMD’s Newest Acquisition Project ULL, CNWS & ESA

The Mangini Ranch’s 207 acres, Save Mount Diablo’s newest acqui- Tens of thousands of acres surrounding Mt. Diablo hang in the bal- sition project, swirls with importance. It winds sinuously through ance of three acronyms: ULL— the Urban Limit Line; CNWS — history, biology and geography much like Galindo Creek, the green- the Concord Naval Weapons Station; and ESA — the Endangered lined, blue thread whose headwaters spring up there. Species Act (federal). We need your help to prevail. Urban Limit Line The Ranch is an Save Mount Diablo and grassland bowl ris- supported Measure J, ing to Lime Ridge—it the successful renewal is adjacent to Lime of the County’s trans- Ridge Open Space on portation sales tax, one side and through because it requires the toward the County and all nineteen quarried slopes of Mt. Contra Costa cities to Zion on the other. The either adopt a mutually creek descends north agreed upon- voter- through Crystyl Ranch approved - Urban Limit open space into Line, or to adopt indi- Concord, its roots the vidual Urban Growth property’s tributaries. Boundries (UGBs) Mangini rises south to around each city. The the Ginochio Ranch, mutual Line must be and nearly to Mt. agreed to by April by Diablo State Park. 75% of the cities repre- senting 75% of the After two years of County’s population, negotiations, the The Mangini Ranch. All photos by Scott Hein and four of the five Mangini family agreed to sell the property to SMD on February 28. county supervisors. The deadline allows time for environmental We have two years to raise $1.45 million. The family will retain review before the Nov. 2006 election. Failure of the cities and the another 25 acres of the 231 acre property. county to reach agreement would cause each city to adopt their own line, approved by their own voters, or lose their loacl street and Ranchos & Place Names roads funding from Measue J. The five-branched Mangini family has a long history which we’re just beginning to decipher. The Ranch boundaries hint of even older The goal of the mutually agreed upon line is to promote rational roots. The property appears to have largely been made up of planning with less traffic congestion. But now, a number of cities ‘sobrante’, or common lands just outside of two Mexican ranchos are attempting to expand the line to include thousands of acres of granted in 1828 and 1834, and Rancho undeveloped land. Concord wants the tidal portion of the Naval San Miguel. The property is largely unfenced, but we are surveying Weapons Station; Antioch wants Roddy Ranch; and Brentwood and it to determine its exact boundaries. Pittsburg are proposing big additions to the line. Clayton is seeking Rancho Monte del Diablo is to add parcels east of the city—including on North Peak’s slopes. named for a willow thicket Voters are not likely to approve these porposals that will lead to continued on page 15 which was later confused with Contra Costa’s highest peak. Special Note & Apologies The two Ranchos developed into We’re sorry that you may be receiving this newsletter after some Walnut Creek and Concord. R. of the “Spring on Diablo” events have taken place. We couldn’t Monte del Diablo was granted to send it out until the Mangini property purchase agreements were continued on page 10 finalized. 1 save MOUNT DIABLO From The Executive Director Board of Directors It has been nearly five years since I became the Executive Director of Save Mount Malcolm Sproul Diablo. It has been a wonderfully enjoyable and exciting, as well as demanding and President challenging experience. During my first month on the job, we celebrated the dedica- tion of Turtle Rock Ranch. Since then we have bought the Wright Ranch, the Morgan Arthur Bonwell Red Corral, the Galvin Ranch and now the Mangini Ranch. We also successfully pre- Vice-President served the Gateway parcel with a conservation easement. We successfully influenced dozens of development projects and we have been involved with a number of success- Allan Prager ful community wide issues that effect the quality of life in our county: tightening the Vice-President Urban Limit Line in 2000; development of the county-wide Shaping Our Future project; and creation and passage of Measure J - the County’s half-cent transportation sales tax (with associated Growth Management). David Trotter We also have worked to support two state wide bond measures for protection of watersheds and natural Secretary lands. Unfortunately, we also worked on several projects that were not successful; the County’s Open Space Frank Varenchik Funding Initiative; the Los Vaqueros expansion campaign and the East Bay Park District’s measure to gener- Treasurer ate maintenance and operating funding. Burt Bassler During the past several years we have increased our community outreach efforts and have developed a num- Mary L. Bowerman ber of new relationships. In addition to our continued alliances with environmental groups and park and Donald de Fremery resource agencies, we have developed associations with unions, developers, home builders and the business Dana Dornsife community. These new alliances are based upon identifying and then working toward the accomplishment of mutually shared objectives. These synergistic alliances with “strange bed-fellows” have helped accomplish a Scott Hein number of SMD’s objectives while also generating increased volunteer and financial resources. Michael Hitchcock Steven Mehlman The next several years will be challenging for SMD. The continued impacts of the urbanization of our grow- John Mercurio ing community (with associated increases in land values) challenge us to increase our land use advocacy David Ogden efforts while simultaneously increasing our need to develop outreach and educational efforts with land own- ers. Our need for financial and volunteer support are going to be greater than ever. We hope that as you read Dave Sargent this issue of Diablo Watch that you will recognize how important the success our little organization is in Sharon Walters ensuring the quality of life in our community. Staff Our growth and success can be attributed to the support and assistance we have received from our active Ronald Brown members. We encourage you to take a more active role by becoming more involved: volunteer for a project; Executive Director ask friends and neighbors to become members; become a sponsor; help us solic- it donations and sponsors. Thanks for your help. Seth Adams Director of Land Programs Blackhawk-Nunn commits to Multi-Year Sponsorship Jennifer House Following their $10,000 sponsorship of SMD’s Mountain Star Awards for the past Office Administrator two years, Blackhawk-Nunn has generously agreed to continue as awards sponsor for Julie Seelen the next two years, including an option for two additional years. Administrative Assistant This early commitment kicks off our sponsor recruitment effort for our September Publisher 17, 2005 “Moonlight On the Mountain” anniversary. Save Mount Diablo Blackhawk-Nunn are developers of the Summerset adult community and the Vineyards at , a 1196 Boulevard Way #10 development associated with the new 4,000 acre Cowell Ranch State Park. Our thanks to Steve and Matt Walnut Creek, CA 94595-1167 Beinke and Bob and Ron Nunn for their continued generous support of Save Mount Diablo. 925-947-3535, Fax 925-947-3603 www.savemountdiablo.org Call for 2005 Mountain Star Nominations [email protected] SMD will be awarding Mountain Star Awards at its 34rd anniversary celebration - “Moonlight on the Founded in 1971, Save Mount Mountain” - on September 17. We are seeking nominations of individuals, organizations or agencies, whose Diablo has been instrumental one-time, or ongoing contributions have contributed to the preservation of land surrounding Mount Diablo in increasing open space on and the quality of life in our community. Current SMD Board Members and staff are ineligible. and around the mountain from 6,788 acres to more than Submit written nominations by 87,000 acres. June 1. Include your name and con- tact information; the name of your Masthead Panorama nominees(s), their contact informa- Dragon 550 tion and several sentences about by Stephen Joseph why you are making the nomina- tions. Mail nominations to SMD CONTAINS Mountain Star Awards, 1196 SOYOIL Boulevard Way, Suite 10, Walnut Creek, 94595 or email

DiabloWatch is printed on recycled [email protected]> Scott Hein paper with a soy base ink and can be Save the Date: Moonlight On The Mountain - Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 recycled. 2 “I had lived in the area for fourteen years before I ever Mark Cunningham is a thought- heard of Black Diamond ful, fascinating speaker and will Mines. I went there and was conduct a reading and lead an just blown away by the land- SMD hike to Nortonville on scape, then went to the Central Library in Pleasant Hill and March 26th. Check the events did research.” One review schedule for info. said “Cunningham shows a knack for picking beautiful, than one), and thus serves the indispensa- haunting settings: the road to ble role—the same it served Contra Costa’s the Nortonville graveyard, air first Native Americans—of world-center; pressure doors in the coalmine, one needn’t be at all religious to recognize and the East Bay hills most of the strange inner misgivings summoned, on all. He displays a real love for a day of heavy fog or haze, when it’s geography and cli- blanked from sight. mate, the hills green in winter I’ve long been in the habit of gazing upon and gold in summer.” the mountain from some vista point at Mark Cunningham’s descrip- Mount Wanda or Briones. While our high- tion of the Green Age of Asher ways thrum at its foot, I often reflect on the Witherow is below. The book brevity of our human legacy in this region. can be found in area book The transition from pastoral wilderness to stores, and you can read more today’s commuter gauntlets has occurred in about Cunningham and the little more than a hundred years—a blink book at: www.mallencunning- in the eye of a mountain as old as ham.com} humankind. The original paradise is barely submerged, and Diablo stands above histo- Mark Cunningham: There’s ry, evidence of that paradise. As long as we a peculiar human experience wish for the mountain to remain eminent, that the American writer wish that it be aproned by expansive open The Green Age of Asher Witherow Wendell Berry beautifully space, we will have held fast to the vital by Mark Allen Cunningham describes as: “the intimacy the importance of awe and its invigorating mind makes with the place it source in our local wonders. {Editor’s Note: Martinez resident M. Allen awakens in.” My own intellectual and cre- Cunningham has written fiction for numer- ative life began in the great shadow of our In the steep arc of Nortonville I see a his- ous literary magazines and is a two-time Mount Diablo, and for all my fondness torical allegory for us today: an era of Pushcart Award nominee for short fiction. toward the mountain and its surrounding immense growth and activity, all of it His lyrical first novel The Green Age of country, I never suspected I’d set a book unsustainable and ultimately swallowed by Asher Witherow, set in Black Diamond here. Still, Diablo exerted its mythic force the greater processes of—first economy, Mines Regional Preserve’s Nortonville dur- in my imagination, and I’ve now published and finally nature (the pristine Black ing its 19th century era, was a novel in which the mountain appears as a Diamond hills now suggest precious little published in October 2004. primary character. of the bleak industry they once supported).

It immediately began collecting acco- The book is set in the 1860s-70s in the The Mount Diablo of my novel stands as a lades—from Publisher’s Weekly, Library coal-mining village of Nortonville, once bit of eternity amidst the unstable world of Journal, and others including a top Book the largest community in Contra Costa Nortonville. Likewise, the true Mount Sense pick by the American Booksellers County, now long vanished from the earth. Diablo continues to bear witness to the Association. Critics have used terms like: In the mid 1870s Nortonville was so flurry of our human presence. I hope my ‘richly descriptive, evocative language’; bustling that its mines were producing book may inspire a fresh awareness of its ‘poetic intensity’; ‘strikingly beautiful more than 1 ton of coal per minute, but continuing role as axis and awe-giver. prose style’; ‘unerring instinct for story- within 10 years fortunes changed and the telling’; ‘a startling accomplishment’; and town was virtually vacated. In a scene ‘lushly talented’; ‘It’s impossible to ade- about halfway through my book, the young quately review such excellence…’. The hero, Asher, observes a wild work has been compared to that of Annie “emerging” from the image of the moun- Dillard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Wallace tain. It’s a mysterious moment, imbued Stegner, and John Steinbeck and the first with almost aboriginal wonderment, and to printing immediately sold out, followed by me it’s the heart of the novel, because it a second printing in December. faithfully renders the impression of bewil- dering immensity the mountain stirs in me. “In many ways I was writing a love letter to the area,” Cunningham explains, “I love We locals are lucky to enjoy such an emi- this land.” “This is the book’s home. It nent daily centerpiece as Diablo. The couldn’t have grown out of any soil but mountain grants us perspective, constantly this.” reminds us where we are (in more sense Mark Cunningham (photo by Seth Adams) 3 Little is left of miner’s lettuce, through woodland groves Somersville but for of blue oak. Detour past the power lines groves of non-native for unimpeded views of Manhattan trees, ailanthus, pep- Canyon, exposed cliffs and points east. per trees, and eucalyp- tus, and coal waste Each new gate signals better scenery. You berms. Coal was dis- leave city noises behind. Muddy soils covered in 1855 south make way for sand, rock and chaparral. of Antioch and in Past a dip in the trail, a rose colored grotto 1859 at Nortonville by appears. Look for several mazanitas Francis Somers and including Diablo manzanita, an endemic James T. Cruikshank. found only in the Diablo area, cream pink flowers abuzz with bees. Noah Norton took up their abandoned first Sparse needled gray pines are shadowed by find, Black Diamond larger more distinctive pines bearing huge Rose Hill cemetery overlooking the Somersville town site (Scott Hein) Mine and Somers and cones, the biggest of any pine—the north- Rose Hill Cemetery & Cruikshank went further east and created ernmost stand of Coulter pines in the state. Somersville. The two towns were aban- Other than at Diablo you’d have to travel The Mt. Diablo Coalfield doned around 1885 and most structures 200 miles south to find them again. relocated. Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve The view opens up east to the Sand Creek Map: www.ebparks.org Rose Hill’s statuesque italian cypress are drainage past another coal mining town Directions: Take Hwy 680 north to Hwy 4 east to your beacons near the divide over to site, Stewartville, to the large hill above the Somersville Rd, Antioch, south to the end & Somersville parking lot Nortonville. Follow the paved road and Star Mine. The trail loops west toward Trails: Nortonville to Black Diamond to Coal Markley creek up to the Mining Museum or 1894’ Kregor Peak above rolling, rumpled Canyon trails, back on Nortonville Trail. on the Nortonville Trail (right), the old hills of velvet green. Reportedly the fastest Distance: 1-3 hours RT. Moderate (Rose Hill: 1 stagecoach trail from Martinez to the mines gust of wind ever recorded in the Bay Area mile RT; Nortonville 2.7 miles RT) Full loop, and on to Antioch. Before long you rise was at Kregor Peak in 1995, 134 mph for some short steep, 5.7 miles RT above the trees to grassland past Manhattan 20 seconds. More coulter pines are silhou- Notes: Mining Museum reservations, 925 676- Canyon. Look back at the north facing tree etted like Christmas trees on rock studded 0192 covered slopes. In the 1940s they were ridges, and palisade cliffs appear above. nearly bare. Imagine Black Diamond Mines as an indus- Before you reach paved Black Diamond trial wasteland. From the 1850s through the The cemetery was a Protestant burial Way you can take a visible but unmarked early 1900s the Mount Diablo Coalfield ground. The earliest known burial was in scenic trail over to Wolf Rock and back. operated. Nine hundred miners labored 1865; many deaths were related to epi- under the earth in hundreds of miles of tun- demics. The cemetery and 1506’ hill above As you crest the hill, views expand to nels, removing nearly four million tons of are named for Emma Rose, daughter of Honker Bay, Pittsburg and Antioch. Irish “black diamonds.” They lived in five coal Alvinza Hayward who was president and Canyon, Clayton’s Peacock Creek neigh- mining towns, two the largest towns in the chief stockholder of the Black Diamond borhood and Central County spread out County, south of present day Pittsburg and Coal Mining Co. of Nortonville. before you in one direction, Mt. Tam Antioch. beyond, and Sierra views in the other. Mt. Emma, and her husband Andrew Rose, Diablo comes into view one peak at a time. Streams ran acid black with coal dust. inherited his fortune and in the 1940s At the knee-burner paved road you can Wooded slopes were cut to bare earth for Emma deeded the cemetery to Contra Costa climb to the peak, or simply descend to the firewood and for tunnel supports. Mine County. The road to the cemetery was Coal Canyon trail. openings were everywhere, marked by cas- open until 1973 and the cemetery was van- cading waste heaps. Sand mining followed dalized but EBRPD is restoring it now. Dropping into Coal Canyon is an exercise from the 1920s to 1940s. Much of the in sheer joy—steep in a few places but not Coalfield is protected within the Preserve, an A persistent myth of cemeteries is a myste- usually slippery, rolling downhill like a ecological restoration success story. rious “Glowing Lady” or “White Witch” gentle roller coaster. usually reported to have been seen at the M. Allen Cunningham’s first novel, The cemetery at night. At Rose Hill the “White Don’t miss “Jim’s” Place; what would it Green Age of Asher Witherow, has focused Witch” is said to be the ghost of midwife rent for today? The canyon’s a great spring attention on the area; reviews note that Sarah “Granny’ Norton, widow of Noah wildflower spot and one of the places you Mount Diablo and the surrounding landscape Norton for whom the town was named, can see the area’s other fairy lantern, are main characters. So is the Rose Hill who died Oct, 5, 1879 (plot 6). Calochortus albus, a cream colored globe Cemetery. You can visit the underground lily with deep rose tints. Mining Museum or make short hikes Continue over the divide to drop to through the town site of Somersville to the Nortonville or, better yet, go left up the When you reach the Nortonville town site, cemetery and to Nortonville. A longer hike Black Diamond Trail for the longer loop. take a right back onto the Nortonville Road loops back through beautiful Coal Canyon. You’ll pass ghostly buckeyes in winter, and it will take you back to the start. leafing out in January above carpets of

4 be removed and the riparian corridor mission is to increase awareness of Mt. replanted. For the first time in the Diablo Creek and its watershed, to pre- County’s history, a house will be torn serve and restore the creek’s habitats, and down to restore habitat. to add to the quality of life for residents of Clayton, Concord, and Clyde. SMD supported and the Clayton City Council approved the redesigned Diablo In September, seventeen FoMDC volun- Pointe project on Dec. 21, 2004. Thanks teers surveyed about 2000 feet of the to project manager Susan Larson and Eric creek near Clayton Library as part of Lemke of Lemke Construction, Inc. for Contra Costa County’s volunteer stream their willingness to compromise. monitoring program. GPS equipment Scott Hein allowed observers to link the creek’s phys- The Diablo Pointe development above Clayton ical characteristics to an exact location. will preseve and enhance Mt. Diablo creek Wading downstream, volunteers noted Claretian Seminary: Friends of streambed materials, channel shape, loca- tions of culverts, bridges, outfalls, vegeta- Preserving Mt. Diablo Creek Mount Diablo Creek tive coverage and tree canopy, and inva- sive plants. Surveys will be organized For decades a large, nearly abandoned by Lisa Anich, co-founder again in 2005. school building below Mt. Diablo’s Donner Canyon has overlooked Clayton. Built in If you’ve rested in the shade of willows and FoMDC’s latest project builds on Clayton 1961, the school is owned by the Claretian cottonwoods along Mitchell Creek or Library’s environmental education pro- Missionaries religious order, which has braved muddy trails to find Donner Creek’s grams. FoMDC won a technical assistance entertained a variety of development pro- springtime waterfalls, you’re probably grant from the Watershed Project, a local posals there over the years. already a friend of Mt. Diablo Creek. Mitchell Creek, Donner Creek and Back non-profit with expertise in watershed The 24 acre site drops from a knoll next to Creek are tributaries of Mt. Diablo Creek stewardship and education. Project staff Mt. Diablo State Park across Mt. Diablo accessible by State Park trails. will help plan improvements to the Creek (where a caretaker residence is cur- library’s creek-side presentation area. rently located), to the Regency Meadows Of Contra Costa County’s thirty-one major FoMDC will organize work days to imple- subdivision. watersheds, only Mt. Diablo, Walnut, and ment the Project’s designs. The Watershed Marsh Creeks boast Mt. Diablo’s summit as Project will also help FoMDC and the Two years ago Lemke Construction, Inc. their highest point. From the slopes of its Library create a pilot program for 4th and proposed replacing the school building and namesake mountain, Mt. Diablo Creek 7th grade students from Clayton schools. caretaker unit with 25 houses. The propos- flows in a relatively natural state for ninety Change may be inevitable as cities grow, al included significant grading near the percent of its length, unencumbered by the but the character of that change is deter- park and three houses along Mt. Diablo concrete channels and underground culverts mined by our imagination and our com- creek. SMD and neighbors along Rialto so prevalent in urban areas. mitment to nature and community. and Regency Drives got involved. What Watersheds give us a different way to was surprising is how willingly Lemke Eight miles of Mt. Diablo Creek {which define community - a definition based on addressed our concerns. begins on SMD’s Chaparral Spring proper- ty} wind through the inland area of the nature. Watersheds include diverse neigh- Early on SMD recognized that the site was Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) – borhoods and challenge us to find com- not pristine; the school building is visually one of the county’s most significant stretch- mon interests. obvious and includes asbestos in need of es of undeveloped creek channel. Wetlands FoMDC meets monthly, alternating evening at the mouth of Mt. Diablo Creek support remediation. We focused on protection of meetings with afternoon hikes. Contact Lisa the creek corridor, oak woodland along the threatened species including an endangered Anich at (925) 689-2642, eastern boundary, and buffers to the Park. plant called soft bird’s beak, salt marsh har- [email protected] or visit us at vest mouse, and black rail. This area is www.alexnice.com/creek.ht Lemke greatly reduced proposed grading, called Seal Creek. relocated the three units along the creek, and agreed to a scenic easement along the As in many parts of Contra Costa County, border with the Park. change is coming to the Mt. Diablo Creek Watershed. Proposed urban development All trees will be saved and five acres of the inland CNWS land could bring including the creek and woodland along the another 36,000 residents to this currently eastern boundary will be donated to the undeveloped area of Concord in the next 25 State Park. years, contingent on the Navy making the land available for civilian uses {see Triple The project will still be visually prominent, Threat!!! and Claretion Seminary: but a variety of development conditions Preserving Mt. Diablo Creek articles}. will reduce aesthetic impacts and Lemke will work to solve drainage problems that Anticipating changes and opportunities for have been affecting neighbors. Mt. Diablo Creek Watershed, Mary Malko and Lisa Anich started Friends of Mt. The most significant precedent is that the Diablo Creek (FoMDC) in May 2004. Its caretaker house along Mt. Diablo creek will 5 Spotlight on Sponsors & SMD Board mile Diablo Trail—from Walnut ing 8 stores in the Bay Area, and direct Creek to Brentwood—which we sales via the Internet, telephone and mail. created in 1994. The map will show In 2003 REI provided nearly $2 million in the proposed route of the Diablo donations in support of the outdoors and Grand Loop Trail which could circle recreation. north from Brentwood to the moun- tain if two gaps are protected. “The Trail Adventure is a great family event,” said Tracey. “It’s a good way for “Since REI is an outdoor store and a people in the community to get together, lot of our employees and members do something active on the mountain and use Mt. Diablo we thought we also get to know what SMD is all about. should do something to preserve the Diablo’s a great resource. I went to high REI Concord: Chris Chambers, Sup.; Chris Negri, Asst. Store land and let them know about Save school in Walnut Creek then moved away; Man.; Megan Costello, Sup.; Doug Tracey, Store Manager; Mount Diablo,” said Doug Tracey, I’ve been with REI for 15 years, traveled Aaron Olsen, Sup.; Kim Jones, Asst. Store Man. (Scott Hein) Store Manager for REI – Concord. around and lived on the East Coast and “SMD does a great job and we’re moved back here four years ago. Coming REI & the Diablo Trail Map Project really pleased to support the organization, back here, what is so nice is to have so Each year SMD presents slideshows at its Map project and to be a sponsor of the much open space close to where people local REI stores. REI is a sponsor of Trail Adventure.” live.” We appreciate REI’s support. SMD’s Mt. Diablo Trail Adventure, a half- In 1938, mountain climbers founded REI - Concord 1975 Diamond Blvd Ste marathon and 10k run and hike on the Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), as a B100 (Willows Shopping Center), 925 mountain held each November. consumer cooperative to purchase high- 825-9400, REI - Berkeley 1338 San In 2004, SMD received a $5,000 REI grant quality equipment. REI has grown to Pablo Ave, 510 527-4140; REI.com and to produce a trail map highlighting the 30- include 70 retail stores in the U.S., includ- REI-OUTLET.com

Dana Dornsife nities. Mt. Diablo is very important to us the Mountain House New Town near from an aesthetic standpoint, something we Tracy. “SMD is a great organization with & Mike Hitchcock feel very strongly about supporting.” tremendous dedication,” said Hitchcock. New SMD Board of Directors “We’ve been supporters for more than “We’re in lock step with SMD, we believe At Moonlight on the twenty years. I consider Mt. Diablo to be in everything that the group is trying to Mountain 2004, one of the most important landmarks in accomplish. The numbers speak for them- SMD’s anniversary the state and one of our metropolitan selves—when you look at the acres that event, guests celebrat- area’s most important open spaces—for have been preserved, development projects ed under the full moon the habitat, recreational facilities, and as a that have been improved or stopped, newly and a spectacular array buffer against urban development.” accessible areas, increasing public aware- of lights. It was a tech- ness of the mountain, and the ways SMD Mike has brought substantial expertise to nical achievement educates developers about how their proj- SMD’s Land Committee and now to the given that there was ects affect the mountain, wildlife and habi- Board, in City and Regional Planning, nothing at the site before the event but tat corridors—it’s all a very positive effort. Resource Management, Development expansive views. We can all thank Dana I’m looking forward to working with the Feasibility, and in review of individual Dornsife, a professional Lighting Designer board and exploring my role. I can bring a development projects. He has coordinated and new member of SMD’s Board of lot of energy to the organization, to help preparation of dozens of General Plans, Directors, for setting it up. make it even more successful.” Specific Plans, ordinances and EIRs for A member of SMD’s Development projects throughout California. Committee, Dana got involved with SMD Dana received degrees in Business and in 2001 through personal trainer Greg Marketing from Drexel Univ. and in “I’m a proponent of good planning in the Francisco of Healthwise Fitness. Seth Interior Design from JFK Univ. She’s urban rural fringes of the East Bay and I Adams, SMD’s Director of Land Programs active in the Yosemite Fund and cancer think my planning experience can be use- leads a hike for Healthwise clients and patient advocacy. Dana and Dave live in ful to SMD. I’ve worked on open space friends of Dana and Dave Dornsife once a Danville with sons Ryan and Brendan. programs for many agencies and I have a year. In April 2002 the Dornsifes partici- dedication toward preserving open space pated in Four Days Diablo, SMD’s four day and habitat here locally.” Michael Hitchcock is trip on the 30-mile Diablo Trail, and Mike has degrees in Sociology from the Owner and Principal became strong supporters of Moonlight on University of Michigan, in City and of Michael Hitchcock the Mountain. Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley, AICP in Walnut and a J.D. from Golden Gate University. “The turning point for us was Four Days Creek, a land use and He lives in Walnut Creek with his wife Diablo,” said Dornsife. “It really made an community planning Nadine, coordinator of the SF Bay impression, the vastness and diversity of consultant firm. For Program at the California Coastal the mountain, and SMD’s whole focus in five years he was Conservancy, and their son Philip. Their attempting to preserve the mountain’s land- Project Manager for scapes and to expand recreational opportu- daughter Alana attends U.C. San Diego. 6 Gary Bogue And His Readers Come Through Gateway Property Fundraising Complete Last Fall fundraising for preservation of the Gateway property was almost complete. Of $1.56 million neces- sary to purchase a conservation easement, all but $15,000 had been raised. We asked Contra Costa Times columnist Gary Bogue to help and he agreed to ask his readers to help raise the funds by donating in honor of Gateway Alliance member JoAnn Hanna’s October 21st birthday - a deadline that was just weeks away. The goal amount of $15,000 was raised in just two weeks. By the October 21 deadline, 900 families con- tributed more than $49,000 to help save more of Mt. Diablo. Thanks to Gary and his readers! Major Donors - $1,000+: Anonymous, ABI Industries, Diablo Funding Group, Graham & Trisha Anderson, William Armstrong, Ardel Bert, Burt Bogardus, Robert & Cynthia Brittain, Giles Brown, John Deeming, Ed Grubb, Harold & Janet Haggett, Ralph & Jo Ann Hanna, Dick & Sally Ingraham, Torsten & Tineke Jacobsen, Peg Kovar, Sidne Long, Carolyn Lynn, Lloyd & Carole Mason, Andres & Julia Matisoo, Patricia Morris, Herb & Elinor Nootbaar, Shirley Nootbaar, Thomas Nootbaar, Rick & Pam Oshay, Joyce Payne, Kerry Randall, Howard & Benegene Rudiger, Dorothy Shelton, James & Barbara Stevens Scott Hein Supporters - $500+: Sgambati Painting, AIG Matching Grants, Ralph Cotter, Jr., Oscar Fernandez & Patricia Galindo, Clint & Sue Phalen, Monica Sheridan, Jay & Jasmin Mumford Contributors - $250+: Anonymous, Appian Imaging, Encina Bicycle Center, Brian Bigelow & Audrey Gee, John Deeming, Dan & Penelope Denenberg, Richard & Karen Hyde, Marion Jamison, James & Sonya Kieran, Thomas & Sandra Magill, Edward & Phyllis Mathias, Susan Newcomb, Eleonora & Christopher Schlies, Judyth Scholz, Jeff Schwarck Construction, Daniel Sitzmann Friends - $100 +: Acalanes Chapter NSDAR, Civic Feline Clinic, Crossroads Pony Club, EBCo Printing & Graphics, Feathered Follies, Fleming Associates, Goodrich Ad Valorem Services, Hasley & Associates, LeConte Corp, Morrison & Frazier, Rocco's Ristorante & Pizzeria, Paul E. Schwenger & Company, Thomas & Annette Alborg,William Alexander, Leslie Anderson, Dennis & Linda Ashlock, Gary & Susan Barker, Rex & Fran Beach, Daryl & William Brand, Edward & Patricia Brands, Ray & Barbara Bronken, Dorothy Brown, Michael & Sue Carney, John & Louise Carson, John & Susie Cecchi, Gale Chapman, Eric Chiang, W. X.. & Maureen Clark, Jennifer Cook, Charles & Susan Couch, Clyde & Mary Davidson, Betty Ebers, E. Enke, Rich & Anita Ergo, David & Julie Farabee, William & Evelyn Farry, Francise Fiorentino, Lester Foley, Michael Gacsaly, James & Mary Ann Gaebe, George & Deborah Gage, Leslie & Virginia Gallaugher, James & Joan Galletly, George & Valerie Gardner, BD & Trudi Garland, Suzanne Gates, Teresa Lynn and William Gibson, James & Judy Gillivan, Gary & Judith Ginder, Beverly Ginochio, Earl Goldman, Diane Griffiths, P.T. Grimes, David & Sue Grubb, Concetta Hagen, Harold & Janet Haggett, Thomas Hagler, Robert Hahn, Allan & Margaret Hansell, Thomas & Melva Hansen, Nora Harlow, Peter & Grace Hartdegen, Heather Hayden, Carlyle Hedrick, Luman & Karen Hughes, William & Lesley Hunt, Diane Isbell, Thomas Jamart, DDS, Eleanor Jardine, Philip & Lee Jenkins, Thomas & Margaret Jones, Jerry & Susan Kaplan, Patricia Kinman, Michael Kowall, Lyn Lazar, Tom & Pam Lee, Walter & Mabel Liang, Jay & Caroline Lutz, David McCloskey, Ann Michelsen, Edward Milbank, Jerry Miller, James & Sharon Moore, F.W. & Patricia Moulthrop, Joyce Munson, Terrance & Linda Murray, Tracy Murray & Mark Williams, David & Margaret Nicholas, Robert & Joan Nootbaar, Vicki Nuetzel, Rudy & Marge Oehm, John & Teresa Onoda, Jamie & Charlotte Panton, Berous Parish, Anne-Lise Peachee, Warren & Irene Peters, Brad & Trish Piatt, Tom & Elizabeth Piatt, Marjorie & Ted Plant, Albert Price, Ed & Gwen Regalia, Deborah Revis, Jennifer Rice, Barbara Riggins, Bud & Jane Rotermund, Cory Saltau, Dorothy Sattler, Dixie & Cliff Sauvain, John & JoAnn Schexnayder, C.O. & Gloria Scilacci, Pamela Seifert, Ernest & Beverly Sherne, Ronald & Karin Siemens, Leslie & Elizabeth Simmonds, Bonnie Slatkin, Dana Slauson, Matt & Mary Maddux Smith, David Smith & Theresa Blair, Joseph & Diane Starkey, Barbara Steben, Terry & Susan Stiffler, Marietta Stuart, Robert & Barbara Suczek, Lisbeth A. Suyehira, Julie Taylor, Mervyn & Christine Taylor, Virginia Thomas, Laura Tow, Mary Ulrich, Stephanie Unruh, Jack & Connie Wallace, Vern & Josephine Ward, Dick & Margo Watson, Tom & Carolyn Westhoff, Roger & Penny Westphal, Robert & Karen Wetherell, Jeanne Wiegand, Rick & Elaine Williams, Clyde Wilson, Donald Wilson, Ed & Carolyn Wood Community (Under $100): Adventures on Horseback, B&B Quarterhorses, Encina Veterinary Hospital, Gail Murray Consulting, Horse Laundry Service, Jalisco Gourmet Burritos, Leonidas Chocolates, Mechanics Bank, Mount Diablo Interpretive Assn, Seidell Enterprises, Samuel & Suzanne Abbott, Elaine Deborah Aitken, Marline Alford, J. Fred & Connie Allen, Kathleen Archbald, Patricia Ashley, Andy Aston, Carol Bagshawe, Adrienne Bal, Norma Bardsley, Donald & Joan Baum, Howard & Katherine Beadleson, Marie K. Bell, Linda Belt, Al & Annalee Benton, Angie Bergeson, Roberta Berkman, Frank Bindt, Suzanne Bitz, James Borchardt, Joanne Bourland, Richard & Mary Bowers, Ethyl Bowman, Melinda Boxold, Sefton & Claudia Boyars, Paul & Kim Bradley, Daryl & William Brand, Angela T. Broadhead, Jennifer Brodie, Penelope Brody, Roland Bueche, Diane Burton, Karen Carpenter, Alexander Castle, Benton & Doreen Cavin, Harvey & Phyllis Ceaser, Stephanie Chandler, Gale Chapman, Patricia Charley, Mara Chettle, Ed & Kathy Chiverton, Frank & Adah Clapp, Paul Clarkson, William & Norma Combs, Melissa Cordova, Henry & Dorothy Couden, David & Joan Cox, Barbara Dahl, Dale & Mary Ellen Dalgaard, Clyde & Mary Davidson, Mildred Day, Brenda de la Ossa, Patricia Debruce, Donnell & Janet Degraf, Yvonne Dewitt, Margaret Diaz, Marilyn Dorsey, Elisa Dowd, Elaine & Gregory Dunlap, Thomas & Jane Dunphy, Fern Eaton, Steven & Janine Eldred, Margaret Elliott, Mary Engstrom, Marvin & Ruth Epstein, Ruth Eseltine, Virginia Evans, William & Walta Everette, Val & Mary Fairman, Ron Ferguson, Marge Ferrari, Willard & Ann Fine, John & Marjorie Fischer, Susan & Donald Fitch, Laurence Fitzgerald, Mary S. Fitz-Stephens, Marilyn Fleetwood, Vicki Flickinger, Wilbur & Nell Fliehmann, David Foorman, Ronald & Barbara Forsstrom, Vivian Fox, Morris Fraser, John & Rosemarie Frost, Loren Furtado, James & Christine Garcelon, Monica Garner, Mark & B Geiser, Raymond & Christina Gillie, Ellen Glasser, David & Rose Glover, Michael & Diane Gorman, Mark & Leslie M. Graham, Janet & H. Donald Grant, Walter & Mildred Greenberg, Shawn Greene, Alice Gregori, John & Sandra Gregory, Edward & Carolyn Griswold, Margaret Gromm, Uwe & Veronica Gunnersen, Irene & Frank Guros, Alice Hansen, Dennis Hanson, Jeannie Harmon, Kathy Ann Harris, Karl & Billi Haug, Walter & Shirley Hausser, Tom & Janeen Heath, Jaqueline Heath, Frank & Barbara Heffelfinger, Scott & Claudia Hein, Mary Joan Helbig, John & Ruth Helgeson, Susan Hester, Mary Higuera, David & Nancy Hill, Roberta Hilson, Takeo & Carle Hirahara, Dorothy & Gordon Howell, Jane Hrynkow, Luman & Karen Hughes, Leonard & Ronell Ialeggio, Muriel Jameyson, Armand & Marylye Johnson, Gordon & Theo Johnson, Donald & Carole Johnson, Raymond & Joan Johnson, John Jones, Maryann & Norman Kay, Angela Keres, Boise & Lucy Ketcham, Helen Kimball, Timothy & Mary Ann Knabe, Melanie Koehler, Ralph & Carolyn Kraetsch, Kurt & Lori Kroothoep, Ann Lagerquist, Wanda Lamanno, Philip Lathrap, Linda F. Lipson, Vera Lis, Erin Lohec, Joan London, Richard & Anne Long, Emme Lorenzen, Sally Lowery, Alice Lynn, Doug & Carol Mackintosh, Robert & Claire Magliano, Leonard Mahler, Andrew D Marshall, DDS & Lynne D Martz, DDS, Diana & David Marzola, Margaret Mason, Eileen Mathey, Susana McComb, Daniel & Maureen McGlathery, Bonnie McLaverty, Robert & Julia Merson, Barry & Susan Miller, Peter & Carole Miller, Valerie & Ernest Moniz, Doris Moore, Sandra Moriarty, Kellie Morin, Stanley & Sally Morner, Georgia Morrison, Caroline & David Moyer, Brian Murphy, Dione & Brad Mustard, Thomas & Phyllis Nagle, Paula Nelson, Susan Newcomb, Louis & Jean Nobbe, Paul B. Northrup, Andrew Noymer, Delores & Sandi Nunes, John & Barbra Nystrom, Geraldine & Jeffrey Oh, Dale & Jean Olds, Patrick & Susan O'Neil, Tim Ory & Diana Minnick, Lura Osgood, John & Shirley Osmer, Robert & Joan Oyler, Julie Papas, Carol Parsons, Harriett Bamford Peabody, David & Jeanette Pearson, Jacquelin & Werner Pels, Dick & Gai Perry, Toni Lee & Perry Carney, Manfred & Barbara Peter, Dolores Petersen, Jane Peterson, Steve & Marley Poff, Kathleen K. Pond, Karen & John Pontrelli, Frank Portillo,Tara Lynn Prescott, Sam Rice Jr, Carissa Richards, Dale & Bonnie Rickford, Marilyn Roach, Norman & Inge Robertson, Gael Rodgers, Patricia Rogers, James & Phyllis Rossi, Kris Rowland, Louis & Zora Sandor, Glendoris Sargent, Annemarie Schatzmann, Herb & Ruth Schiller, Judyth Scholz, Ed & Joan Schommer, David Seaborg, Robert & Shirley Sherman, Lela & Bill Shewry, Maxine Skeen, Diana Skibiel, Margery Ann Smith, Selma Soss, Barney & Nancy Speckman, June & Richard St John, Mary Stack, Margaret Steele, Martin & Rene Steinpress, Sue Stenstrom, Robert & Margaret Stithem, Robin Stoneham, William Surges, Eric & Debbie Swallow, William & Jean Tarr, Bill & Lorraine Thomas, Fred & Margaret Trask, Robert & Amalia Troyer, Jay & Joan Valancy, Frank & Edith Valle- Riestra, Nestor Vaschetto, Stephanie Vasquez, Nancy Verrier, Kevin & Susan Walmsley, Jacqueline Warden, Alan & Sandra Warner, Frederick & Margaret Warnke, Thomas & Carol-Anne Watt, Charlotte Webber, Jeanne Wiegand, James & Susan Wilson, Patsy Wilson, Dorothy Wilson, Gary Bogue George & Grace Winterton, Jack & Jane Wulff, Donald & Lillyan Yoder, Bradford & Bonnie Young, Joel & Jacqueline Zaves (by Scott Hein) 7 Diablo Celebrated Jones Property Dedication October 24, 2004 Under threatening skies, Mark & Shannon Jones opened their home and property to SMD members to celebrate the preservation of the last parcel in Riggs Canyon, the canyon mouth. The Jones protected their 232 acres with conservation easements involving Braddock & Logan, East Bay Regional Park District & Lennar. As the event took place both the sun and Mt. Diablo joined us. Thanks to our Sponsors: Mark & Shannon Jones, Braddock & Logan Services, Sycamore Associates LLC.

from left, top to bottom: the view up the Jones property’s canyon toward Highland Ridge; former Supervisor Millie Greenberg & Seth Adams, SMD Director of Land Programs present Shannon & Mark Jones with a photo of their property; Regional Park District Director Beverly Lane and Greenberg, view into Riggs Cyn; the Park District’s Nancy Wenninger, SMD’s Seth Adams, Beverly Lane & Roger Epperson, Reg. Preserve Supervisor; SMD Board member Frank Varenchik & Barbara Halkett; Manny Lindner who first proposed Morgan Territory Reg. Preserve & Epperson; EBRPD’s Nancy Wenninger; Pat & Debbie Gregory; John Kiefer, Scott Hein; the crowd listens to speakers on the Jones porch; David Lingren & Ilana Schatz; Sharon Walters, Art Bonwell, John Kiefer, Allison Hill.

Save the Date Cowell Ranch State Park “Moonlight on the Mountain” Special Donor Preview Saturday evening, September 17, 2005 December 5, 2004 An elegant evening under the light of the full moon, at the China Wall on Mt Diablo. 4000 acre Cowell Ranch State Park, newly created in Celebrate SMD’s 34th anniversary and acknowledge recipients of Mountain Star Awards. 2003, isn’t yet open to the public but SMD donors got a special preview during a hike led by Ken Catered reception with • Sign up as an • Be a table host Dyleski (pointing). The Park’s sensual grasslands hosted bar, sumptuous event sponsor • Donate silent or support one of the area’s largest concentrations of eagles and other raptors; it is an important new link dinner, jazz quartet, • Join the planning live auction items in the proposed 60 mile “Diablo Grand Loop” Trail silent & live auctions. committee. • Call 925-947-3535 which Dyleski has mapped. Another preview is scheduled for May 15th. 8 Diablo Celebrated Mt. Diablo Trail Adventure November 7, 2004 The 3rd annual Trail Adventure included record numbers of participants in a half marathon & 10K run & interpretive hike, as well as a BBQ and family expo featuring a variety of non-profits. Adam Rhoads was half marathon winner in 1:24:53; Marianne Baldetti first woman in 1:52:17; Justin Coffeen 10K winner in 39:46; Jenny Wong first place woman in 47:53. Thanks to our Sponsors: the Contra Costa Times, Forward Motion, Jamba Juice, New Balance, Pacific Coast Trail Runs, REI.

from left, top to bottom: Justin Coffeen 215, winner of the 10k run in 39:46 & Dan Stefanisko 203, MSDSP Supervising Ranger and 10k 2nd place in 43:39; little girl meets a snake at the family expo; sponsor tents set up; two happy finishers; Jenny Wong 193, first place woman in the 10k in 47:53; Adam Rhoads 319, first place half marathon in 1:24:53; Claudia Hein collects canned goods for the Contra Costa-Solano Food Bank; racers enjoy donated Jamba Juice; crowd at one of the tents with the band Grabbag; runners starting the race; Trail Adventure sponsors and committee: Talia Smith, Chris Chambers of REI, Ron Brown, New Balance’s Jenny Wong, Marty Breen of Forward Motion, Wendell of Pacific Coast Trail Runs, Dave Husted; Interpretive hikers finish the race last, together, led by SMD’s Seth Adams.

Photos by Liede-Marie Haitsma, Scott Hein 9 ridgeline green- Over the next 30 days the coalition col- belt between lected nearly 11,000 signatures to qualify Concord and a referendum, with major funding from Walnut Creek, SMD. When the developers attacked the even as Mt. petitions in court, SMD funded the legal Diablo State Park defense. We prevailed and won the refer- expanded down endum vote in November 1989 with 81%, the mountain and thereby reversing the project approval. across Mitchell and White The developers began working with SMD Canyons. The and neighbors instead of against us. Four two parks are a years later a new Crystyl Ranch proposal mile and a half adhering to the Concord General Plan— apart. The 454 units, no golf course, and 333 acres of Mangini Ranch open space—was approved. SMD sup- represents most of ported the proposal. Mangini is a bowl stretching from Lime Ridge east toward Mt. Zion and its quar- the gap. ries. The Crystyl Ranch development is out of sight, at left. Duchi, Mangini & Sproul Mangini (Continued from pg 1) Threats Developers had also begun showing inter- est in the Mangini Ranch but in 1990 the Don Salvio Pacheco, who later donated Despite creation of the new open space, citizens of Contra Costa County voted to land for the town of Todos Santos, which during the 1970s development pressure create an Urban Limit Line. Mangini is became Concord. Don Salvio Pacheco was accelerated. Between 1988 and 1990 four outside of the line. No more than a minor grandson of Juan Salvio Pacheco, a foot proposals threatened Lime Ridge’s very subdivision of five lots could be approved. soldier in Spain’s 1776 de Anza expedition, slopes on both sides. Applications for Still, over the next thirteen years, one the second one around the mountain. Don Crystyl Ranch—just north of Mangini—and developer or realtor after another floated Salvio Pacheco’s son-in-law was Don a State College campus in Concord includ- plans for Mangini. Each one fell through. Francisco Galindo, for whose family the ed more than 900 acres and 921 units, an creek is named. 18-hole golf course and a college site. Finally Bob Duchi, an engineer and part- Rancho Paraiso and the Portofino projects ner in DK Associates, an engineering firm Diablo’s north and west sides were in Walnut Creek included more than 500 which represents developers, approached parceled out quickly and Lime Ridge’s units on 500 acres. mineral deposits were an early focus of SMD’s president Malcolm Sproul, a biotic consultant at LSA Associates, which also economic development. Prior to the 1850 SMD began organizing opposition and lead- represents developers. SMD has worked discovery of lime there, necessary for plas- ing hikes to show the public what was at with Duchi in the past on developer miti- ter, stucco and cement, it had to be shipped stake. Ultimately we were neutral on the gations resulting in significant land preser- around Cape Horn. Lime Ridge allowed college proposal (most of which was open vation. Duchi was honored last year with California to begin replacing fire prone space), and brokered a compromise at SMD’s Mountain Star Leadership Award. wooden towns with cement skyscrapers. Rancho Paraiso that preserved almost half the site. We opposed the Portofino project Lime Ridge to Mt. Diablo Jim Mangini, a son of one of the five (also known as Newhall North & South) What’s miraculous is that Mangini property owners of the Mangini Ranch, works for outright since it was surrounded on 80% of survived Spaniards, Mexicans, American DK and because of Duchi’s involvement its border by Lime Ridge Open Space. In homesteaders, miners, railroads and sub- with the organization over the years, had 1993 it was acquired and added to the Open urbs. Farmers were succeeded by farming become increasingly aware of SMD’s Space in a cooperative effort by Walnut companies and then by Henry Cowell Lime work. Bob and Jim recognized the unlike- Creek and the East Bay Regional Park and Cement Company which moved to the ly chances of development at Mangini and District. in 1909, less than two miles thought SMD might be pragmatic enough to negotiate a deal with the family. Two away. By 1911 a railroad spur had been Coalition for Concord’s Future extended to the west side of the ridge. years later agreement was reached, and we Eighteen groups organized by SMD have 2 years to complete the purchase. After World War II Walnut Creek and opposed Crystyl Ranch, including a number continued on page 11 Concord, which totaled just 2,960 residents of nearby homeowner associ- in 1940, spread across the grain fields and ations. Ignoring overwhelm- orchards of Central County toward the ing public opposition, the mountian. Concord City Council approved the project in June Save Mount Diablo was formed in 1971 of 1989. The city revised its and funds for Lime Ridge Open Space General Plan, which had were approved in June 1974. Open space called for 454 homes and 300 purchases on Lime Ridge began in 1976 acres of open space on the aided by significant dedications from near- 512 acre site - instead by developments. approving 725 units (down from 900), an 18-hole golf Lime Ridge Open Space stretched north- course, and just 30 acres of west toward the Concord BART station, a open space. Crystyl Ranch, downstream 10 survives, is just trail has been completed. one of the prop- erty’s rare Cars and radios fade into birdsong as you species. It also cross through Crystyl Ranch’s open space. includes one of Stretching up to the ridgeline you are the northenmost transported more than 60 years back into patche of desert the area’s cattle ranching history. The pur- olive along with chase of Mangini adds a new link in the Hospital Canyon Riding and Hiking Trail, which continues larkspur. Its within Mt. Diablo State Park. chaparral almost certainly sup- Come See Mangini ports threatened We’re just beginning to explore the Alameda whip- Mangini Ranch ourselves. Future issues of snake and rare Diablo Watch will describe its recent histo- horned lizards. ry. We didn’t have to visit at all to know this: the property is historically interesting SMD Board of Directors, staff and a few friends tour Mangini in December 2004. Whether we find and extremely important for its strategic the buckwheat or Mangini (continued from page 10) location, for its diverse wildlife habitat and not, Mangini’s diverse habitat—grassland, rare species, for regional trail connections, Bowerman, Buckwheat, stream canyons, two springs, oak woodland, because of the needs of adjacent residents, Olive & Larkspur chaparral, oak savannah—supports high and given development threat. If we had Why the interest from SMD? If you’ve diversity. Its huge oaks are centuries old. not acted the property would be developed. been a member for the past several years Mangini’s preservation will build on our you might remember a 2003 fundraising work at Lime Ridge and Crystyl Ranch, and When we did visit the property, we found appeal, describing our work. Seth Adams, protect another section of Galindo Creek. even more. The property has high ridge- SMD’s Director of Land Programs wrote: line views to Marin, Sonoma and Solano California Riding & Hiking Trail Counties. It also has intimate views within I had the interesting experience yesterday A walk onto the Mangini Ranch is a study in the property’s narrow canyons. This prop- of walking in the footsteps of Mary contrasts. As you walk along Galindo Creek erty could function as a stand alone park. Bowerman, Save Mount Diablo’s founder. up the California Riding and Hiking Trail, Its fire road system already provides sever- In the 1930s Mary was finishing her Ph.D which ends at the Ranch’s gate, you leave al beautiful loop trails of varying length in botany at Cal, and was cataloging dense new development behind. and difficulty. A short walk allows you to Mount Diablo’s plant life. leave development behind. In 1944 a California Riding and Hiking Five botanists and I were looking for a Trails Project Committee was established to It’s spectacularly beautiful. But don’t take pretty little rose-colored wildflower which initiate development of a statewide trail sys- our word for it. Come see for yourself. may be extinct. It was last seen in 1940 tem. One of the system’s visionaries was We need your support to raise the proper- and local botanists describe finding it as Clayton resident George Cardinet, perhaps ty’s $1.45 million price and we’ll be lead- ‘the holy grail’. Save Mount Diablo is California’s most famous equestrian and the ing preview hikes this spring. negotiating for several properties, includ- “Father of the trail system in California,” ing the headwaters of a local creek. On according to the California State SMD has scheduled a public hike at June 20, 1936, above the creek and near Horseman’s Association. the Mangini Ranch on April 3rd. the boundary of the two parcels, Mary located the flower. The 1945 Legislature and Gov. Earl Warren Check “Galindo Creek” approved the California Riding and Hiking in the Spring on Diablo Her notes are precise; it was at a knoll, Trail Bill, to be overseen by the State Park schedule for hike information. west of a well known landmark, at its Commission. The plan called for a 3,000 ‘north end, 1150 ft., fairly steep hillside, mile trail, extending from San Diego county west exposure, associated with red brome, near the Mexican Border, north through the poison oak, climbing bedstraw, California Tehachapi Mts. and Sierra to the sagebrush, and Jepson’s woolly sunflower’. Border and returning southward Most of the dozen locations where the through the Coast Range. flower was found are around the mountain and most are privately owned, off limits to As much as possible, the route was estab- botanists. I spoke to a 6th grade class lished over pre-existing trails and dirt roads today. By coincidence, the class is working on public lands. State funds provided for on a project to protect and restore a section construction and helped to create jobs for of creek—the same creek whose headwaters returning war veterans. Subsequent legisla- I had climbed…. tion provided for feeder trails extending from communities and connecting public We haven’t found the Mt. Diablo buck- lands. Portions of the trail have been incor- wheat but we were at the Mangini Ranch porated into local and regional systems. Mangini Ranch nearly bridges the gap from Lime above Galindo Creek. The buckwheat, if it After sixty years only half of the continuous Ridge Open Space to Mt. Diablo State Park 11 ates tobecomemembers. your friends,familymembersandbusinessassoci- 2005. You canhelpusachieveourgoalbyasking we obtainenoughnewmembersbyNovemberof We willonlyreceivethefullamountofgrantif new will matchthe$35membershipdonationforeach expansion ofourmembershipprogram. The grant Mount Diabloa$15,000granttoassistuswiththe The SanFranciscoFoundationhasawardedSave New MemberMatchingGrant FoundationAwards$15,000 SF By SueBainbridge Native Olives At TheManginiRanch Not TheOrdinaryTable Variety sometimes growsinassociationwiththe slope vegetationtypes.Desertolivealso species arethosefoundinmesic,north a result,manyoftheassociatedplant etrates thecanopyandreachessoil. As twigs aresodensethatverylittlelightpen- its twigsarelikespines. The branches and types. Itsbranchesaredenseandstiff, and foliage isasharpcontrasttoadjacentscrub ets intheEastBay, anditsbright green It growsinsometimesimpenetrablethick- olive, anddon’t havecommercialvalue. are small(5-8mm)relativetothetable europaea the commercialtableolive( same plantfamily, butdistantly relatedto, that growsupto9feettall.Itisinthe Forestiera pubescens nity, desertolivescrub.Desert olive, including auniqueandrarescrubcommu- includes amosaicofplantcommunities, SMD’s newproject,theManginiRanch, ber SMD.Ourtax IDnumberis94-2681735. your annualworkplacedonation, pleaseremem- your United Way Pledge. When askedtomake Designate SaveMountDiabloas therecipientof membership thatwereceive. United Way DonorOption ). The fruitsofthedesertolive , isadeciduousshrub Olea would havebeenextirpated(wipedout)in As conditionsbecamemilder, deserttaxa Tehachipi, and Walker Passes. south CoastRangesviathe Tejon, taxa toinvadetheSanJoaquin Valley and decreased by4-5inches,allowingdesert Fahrenheit andprecipitationmayhave Valley wouldhaveincreasedby5-6degrees Temperatures inthesouthernSanJoaquin central portionsofCalifornia. deserts mayhaveoccurredinsouthernand that aclimatemorerepresentativeofthe the southwest.InCalifornia,thatmeant was anexceptionallywarmdryperiodin years ago,afterthelastglacialperiod,there Paleobiologists believethat8,000-5,000 did itgetthere? rence ofdesertoliveinCalifornia.How Mangini Ranchisthenorthernmostoccur- rences intheSouthCoastRange. The the SierraNevada,andinscatteredoccur- and PeninsularRanges,theEastslopeof endeavors! creative effort. We wishthemgoodluckintheirfuture to theentirePeopleSoftCreativeteamfortheirgreat to distributepotentialnewmembers.Specialthanks SMD ifyouwouldliketoreceivecopiesofthebrochure to 20,000householdssurroundingMt.Diablo.Call Foundationmatchinggrant.Itwasrecentlymailed SF assist SMDinobtainingnewmemberstoqualifyfora mail brochureforSMD. The brochureisdesignedto Services teamdonatedtheirtimetodevelopadirect Prior tobeingacquiredbyOracle,PeopleSoft’s Creative Campaign forSMD PeopleSoft DevelopsDirectMail dation orcorporate donationprogram. gram. Also letusknowifyouremployerhasafoun- Ask youremployeriftheyhave a matchinggiftpro- Many companiesmatchcharitable contributions. Sue Bainbridge in thedeserts, Transverse spring. InCalifornia,itoccurs the olivestandsurroundsa rivers andsprings—atMangini ern Mexico,inassociationwith southwestern U.S.,andinnorth- The desertolivegrowsinthe species newtoscience. the desertregion,andthusa ent fromtheonethatoccursin host plant,asitmightbediffer- lations ofdesertoliveastheir that usestheCoastRangepopu- Davis areinterestedinamoth Region. EntomologistsatUC ic (restrictedto)totheEastBay ote thistlethatisnearlyendem- and attheManginisite,acoy- rare HospitalCanyonlarkspur Business Contributions 12

Scott Hein Society. Chapter oftheCaliforniaNativePlant Vegetation EcologistfortheEastBay U.C. Berkeley’s JepsonHerbarium& Sue BainbridgeisaMuseumScientistat important conservationobjective. tion ofdesertolivescrubatManginiisan Given threatstotheseotherstands,protec- Carnegie Off-Highway Vehicular Park. County) arethreatenedbyexpansionofthe Two standsinCorralHollow(Alameda the EastBayoutsideManginiRanch. stands ofdesertolivescrubareknownfrom few of desertandCoastRangestands. A differences mayexistbetweentheecology impacts. Inaddition,potentiallyimportant tion whenevaluatingenvironmental a communitythatisworthyofconsidera- Fish andGameconsidersdesertolivescrub scattered andrareenoughthattheDept.of scrub inCalifornia,althoughwidespreadis The moderndaydistributionofdesertolive needed totestthishypothesis. ontological records. Additional evidenceis presence ofthesespeciesratherthanpale- scenario islargely basedonmodernday bush, anddesertolive.Evidenceforthis leopard lizard,Californiajuniper, golden- the desertnightlizard,scaly of theprecedingdryperiod. They include persisting intheCoastRangeareindicators the valleyareasbutafewremnantspecies www.savemountdiablo.org ship informationorsee 947-3535 formember- mountain? Call925- preserve more ofyour Wouldn’t youliketohelp etc. signings, dedications, as welllectures, book newly preserved areas, tours ofuniqueand events—expert guided invitations tospecial the $250levelreceive Donors toSMDabove Special Donors for SMD’s Special Events Membership Matters Who Is A Member of Save Mount Diablo? Historically, only those donors who specifically earmarked their donation for “membership” were actually count- ed as SMD members. The problem was that this definition failed to recognize that there are many different financial contributions that individuals make in supporting Save Mount Diablo.

Therefore, beginning with this issue of Diablo Watch, we will be counting an individual’s combined contribu- Michael Sewell tions (totalling $35 or more) received in the previous 365 days to determine that individual’s “membership level.” Donations that will count toward membership include: appeals, general donations, memorial and hono- rarial gifts, Heritage Tree donations, land acquisition donations, United Way donor option contributions, event sponsorships, as well as all other purely charitable donations. (All of these contributions will continue to be 100% tax deductible as allowed by law). Previously these contributions, while equally appreciated, were not counted toward an individual’s membership level. Instead, they classified the individual as an SMD supporter. This new method of defining membership levels will remove confusion that has arisen in the past and will allow us to more appropriately acknowledge the generous support we receive from our many donors.

The members listed in the following sections reflect all of our membership qualifying donors since January 1, 2004. We thank and appreciate each and every one of them.

Summit Club Paul Liu Karl Bartle Clark Anderson Robert & Dolores Price ($1,000 or more) Karl & Jan Mangold Burt Bassler Glorya Anderson-Weber Jim Richards Blackhawk-Nunn AAC of Lloyd & Carole Mason Robert & Lisa Blum Alan & Helen Appleford Don & Sharon Ritchey Brentwood William & Louise Maxwell Malcolm & Sylvia Boyce Mary I. Baldwin Richard & Judy Rogers Braddock & Logan Gordon & Donna Monroe Donna Buessing-Johnson Stephen & Karen Beck Al & Mary Anne Sanborn BT Rocca, Jr. Foundation David Ogden & Sandy Biagi David, Abbey & Becky Cook Geoffrey & Sally Bellenger Dave & Helen Sargent California State Society, Donald & Georg Palmer Don de Fremery Mark & Silvia Belotz Carlo & Margareta Sequin NSDAR Brad & Trish Piatt Kaye Decker Arthur Bonwell Kathy Simons & Jeff Gustafik Chevron Texaco Jan Richardson Leslie & Sydney Dent Diane Brown Kevin & Rhonda Slater Concord Feed & Pet Supply Cathy Rose Stephen Evans Polly Browne Dana Slauson Diablo Lincoln Mercury Audi James & Patricia Scofield Susan Flautt Emily Campbell Jesse Smith Discovery Homes Marian Scott Lee Glasgow Ruth Collins Kay Smith East Bay Regional Park Ruth Sherer Marylee Guinon John & Charlice Danielsen Dean & Samantha Stoker District William Sikkema Laurie & Alden Harken Phillip & Jean David Sandor & Faye Straus ENGEO Inc. Richard & Sandra Smith Doyle Heaton John Deeming Todd & Barbara Tillinghast Gail Murray Consulting Mildred Snelson Scott & Claudia Hein Raymond & Laura DePole Tom & Jill Toffoli IBEW Local Union 302 Malcolm & Casey Sproul Ken & Joanne Hughes Conrad & Shirley Diethelm John Waggoner Jamba Juice George & Helene Strauss David & Lynn Jesus Nancy & Mark Dixon Tom M. Wagner LSA Associates, Inc. Jeanne Thomas John & Linda Judd Richard & Betty Falck Milton Watchers Morrison & Foerster Gregory & Cathy Tibbles Giselle Jurkanin Tom Fannin Stu & Kim Weinstein Pacific Coast Carpet David & Deborah Trotter Joyce Kelly Ana Fien Charles Wiscavage Plumbers & Steamfitters UA - Clifford Walker Paul & Vivien Larson Paul & Kathy Fitzpatrick Leslie Wyatt Local 159 Peg & Steve Wilcox Michael Magnani Sid & Linda Fluhrer Milo Zarakov & Deborah Long REI, Concord Sonja Wilkin Barbara Mahler David Frane & Charla Gabert Earl & Marlys Worden Leonard Mahler W. J. Frank Diablo Donor Richland Development ($100 or more) Foundation (* Donors who make a 10 John & Kathleen McCorduck Paul & Marilyn Gardner Alamo Women's Club Signature Properties year annual donation pledge Martin & Janis McNair Karl & Kathleen Geier Butera Video Productions The Mechanics Bank to Save Mount Diablo of at Steve and Linda Mehlman Liana Genovesi & Scott Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Vivendi Universal least $1,000, qualify as Shirley Nootbaar Ahrendt Founder’s Circle members) Lawrence & Mary Peirano David & Betsy Gifford LLP Penny & Jim Adams Marjorie & Ted Plant Peter Hagen IBM Matching Grants Graham & Trisha Anderson Paul Popenoe Liede Marie Haitsma Program Rollin & Millie Armer Allan & Kit Prager Ron & Ann Hendel Knapsack Tours Ardel Bert William Robinson Roz Hirsch Mal Warwick & Associates Burt Bogardus Wayne Rudiger Harlan & Gayl Hirschfeld Microsoft Matching Gifts Mary Bowerman Daniel & Janet Schalk Michael & Nadine Hitchcock Program David & Rena Brantley* Stuart & Bette Schuster Richard Hoedt Orinda Garden Club Jim & Carolyn Butler Monica Sheridan Brian & Claudia Howard Orinda Hiking Club Harry & Beth Byrne Pitcher Sage (Scott Hein) Dana Sketchley Barbara Jennings Pacific Coast Trail Runs David Smith & Theresa Blair Darryl & Beverly Johnson Patricia Robertson Interiors Ruth & Frank Celle Peak Guardian Johnson & Louise Clark Henry Stauffer Dave & Lois Kail RK Taylor & Associates Jane Colgan ($500 or more) John & Elouise Sutter Deborah & Steve Kaplan The Wednesday Walkers Sally Dalton AIG Matching Grants Maryellen Tyler Gerald & Rosette Koch Triple Crown Realty David Devine Program Frank & Barbara Varenchik Jonathon Lawlis WellPoint Associate Giving Dave & Dana Dornsife* Bank of America Matching Sharon & Bill Walters Marston & Anne Leigh Campaign Elizabeth Girgich Gifts Program Shawn Willis Paul & Yen Yee Locklin Wild Bird Center Charles Gresham Bank of the West Bruce & Mary Louise Wilson Christopher & Barbara McLain Barth Foundation Ed Grubb Mountain Saver Mark McLaren & Nancy Dick Heron Clorox Gift Campaign Norland Virginia Ives & Paul Orsay* Contra Costa Roofworks ($250 or more) Ivy Morrison Mark Jones Del Monte Foods Bunker & Company Joyce Munson Scott & Tiffany Kaplan Diablo Analytical, Inc. Fresenius USA Erin O’Brien John Kiefer Rotary Club Nike Employees Charitable Stephen & Susan Ohanian Doug Lacey Mills Associates Giving Program Tom & Nancy Patten Sycamore Associates Plant Decor James & Patricia Pray Larkspur (Scott Hein) 13 Membership Matters (Continued from pg 13) Sherrill Cook John Harris Diane Meade Charles & Jeanne Shaw Marilyn Cooper Katherine Hart Ed Mendelsohn Stacey Shewry Nancy Cossitt Toni & Bob Hassard John & Jill Mercurio Joanie Shicoff Janice Costella Les Hawkins Susan Minger Scott & Sharon Shumway Leonard & Virginia Coster Janice Henderson Michael Mohr Sharon Singer Charles & George Anne Coyle Delbert & Mary-Louise Ann Moldenschardt Elizabeth Slate Kenneth Cribley Hendrix Tom & Maria Monica Bob Slyker Christopher & Dee Dee Cross Dan & Carol Henry Barbara Monsler Alan & Mary Louise Smith David L. Cummins Jerry & Kathy Hicks Jay & Jasmin Mumford Diane Smith Valley Oak (Scott Hein) Sharon Cummins Mark Hill Maynard Munger Kathryn Smith Bozena Adam Bradley & Carol Davis Rudy & Stephanie Hoffman Robert Myers Matt & Mary Maddux Smith Judy & Andy Adler Graham & Mary Davis Virginia Holmes Thomas & Phyllis Nagle Morgan & Sarah Smith Stephanie Aguiar Hattie Davis Mary Jane Huff Theron & Elizabeth Nelson Ron & Judy Smith Glenn Alex Richard Davis Margaret & William Hughes Rolf & Elise Neuweiler Winifred Sorem Norma Alexander James Day Carolyn Hunt Susan Newcomb John & Elaine Spiecker Roger Alperin Marilyn Day Noel & Laura Hurd David & Margaret Nicholas John & Marjorie Sproul H. Ward Alter Leslie De Boer Carl & Patricia Irving Thomas Nootbaar Richard & Mary Sproul Catherine Anderson Alma DeBisschop Toris Jaeger Andrew Noymer James & Barbara Stevens Jack Anderson Ernest & Florence Dickson Martin & Mary Jansen Genevieve Nygaard Nancy Storch Janice Anderson Constance Diernisse Donald & Ann Jones Michael Ogles Mark Stott Lloyd & Sheila Andres Jack & Ami Ditzel Irene Jones Charles & Anne Olsen Jeffrey & Eileen Straus Robert & Susan Andrews Robert Docili Steven & Anne Jones John & Constance Ormond Paul & Bea Stunz Alice Anthony Linda Domeier Gail Jordan Ronald & Prentice Osborn Jo & Jack Sudall Lyn Arscott Fred & Sue Donecker Tom & Mary Anne Jorde Verna Osborn Dan Suzio Kenneth & Linda Back Barbara Drew Ramesh & Sushila Kansara Stephanie & Alan Oswald Rose Marie Tantillo David Baer Andrew & Rosemary DuBois Jerry & Susan Kaplan Christopher & Margaret Panton Kate & Will Taylor Steve Bakaley Peter & Judith Duncan Jordana & Barry Katcher Jamie & Charlotte Panton Patricia Thomas James Bartlett Thomas & Jane Dunphy Edward & Marjorie Keller Mildred Partansky Patricia Thunen Virginia Bary Ken & Lynn Dyleski Denis Kenneally & Kim Lippi Jag & Judy Patel Michael & Connie Tomcik Hunt & Patti Bascom John Edwards John & Marian King Joan Patterson Thomas & Lynn Trowbridge Christina Batt Donald & Jeanie Egan Selma King Anita & Oliver Pearson Jacob Van Akkeren Phil Bellman Charles Eisner Elizabeth King-Sloan Louise Pereira R.F & M.K Van Cantfort Claude & Carol Benedix Anthony Emerson Stephanie Kirschbaum Dale Perkins John & Linda VanHeertum Lesley Benn Karen Erickson Patricia Klahn Warren & Irene Peters Nestor Vaschetto Edward & Mildred Bennett Bill & Margaret Espey Delma Kline Robert & Susan Phillips Lee & Jacqueline Volta William Bernell John & Robbin Eudy Doug Knauer & Jennifer Beatrice Pixa David & Laura Waal Bruce & Sandra Beyaert Carol Evans Babineaux Tom Potworowski Michael & Joyce Wahlig Dick & Alice Biagi Charles & Marjorie Evans George Kohut Kathryn Powell Elizabeth Waidtlow Patty Biasca William & Evelyn Farry Emma Kolokousis Jeff & Joyce Radigan Sally Walker Lewis Bielanowski Larry Ferri Lester & Bonnie Krames Harold & Margarette Ray Barbara Walters Wendell & Barbara Bigelow Kent Fickett David Kwinter Constance Regalia John Waterbury Anne Blandin Marcia Fisherkeller Melba Lahti Jean Reynolds Douglas & Ruth Waterman Margaret Bloisa Jim & Debbie Fleming Lynn & Gordon Lakso Susan Reynolds Dick & Margo Watson Dan Boatwright Daniel & Joan Forney Robert & Diane Lang Peter & Ann Richards Susan Watson Andrei Boitor Paul, Lisa & Kelsey Francis Philip Lathrap Clara Richert David & Elaine Wegenka Adela & Norman Bonner Greg & Cindy Francisco Charles & Lynn Leavitt Brooks Rogers Dave & Cindy Weiner Don & Jeanne Boyd Morris Fraser Ray Lehmkuhl Walter & Mary Rogers Elspeth Wells Kate Boyle Susan Freeman Cecil & Mary Louise Leith Leslie Rosenfeld Vincent & Rosemary Weltz William & Zanya Bradfield Robert P. & Maria Frick Lillian Lemon Tod Rubin & Catherine Corey Tom & Carolyn Westhoff Butch & Lynn Brear Alex & Deborah Friedman Ronald & Rose Lernberg Alfred & Mary Russell Robert & Karen Beverly Bridges Jack & Maureen Fritschi Tracy & Paul Lindow Patricia Sagenkahn Suzanne Widmar Dirck & Phyllis Brinckerhoff Gerald & Irene Fritzke James Lingel Saint Mary’s College Peter & Amelia Wilson Jennifer Brodie John & Rosemarie Frost David Lingren Linda Sanford Alice Bernice Woodhead Richard & Alice Brown Joanne Frudden R Bruce & Joan Linton Sheryl Sankey Craig & Barbara Woolmington- Katherine & Fred Brunswig David & Bonnie Fry Linda Locklin Peter & Maureen Sansevero Smith Dennis Butkowski Carolyn Fulcher David Loeb Subir & Mary Sanyal Amy & Tom Worth Pam Butler Leslie & Virginia Gallaugher Janet & N.C. Luhmann Martin Sargent James & Sieglinde Wyles Kenneth & Janet Caldwell James & Joan Galletly Paul & Julie Lundstedt Dorothy Sattler Donald & Carolyn Zerby Sarah Anne Ginskey & Greg Al & Pat Gavello James & Shirley Lynch Earl & Kathy Sawyer George & Sarah Zimmerman Caligari Bingham & Larry Gibbs Jon Maienschein Frederic Sawyer Kurt Zimmerman John & Jane Cambus Gurpreet Gill Jane Mailander Jean Saylor Frances Zurilgen David & Janet Carlson John Ginochio Bill & Georgia Marshall Roberta Schane Crystal Zwiebach-Eng William & Deborah Carr Garrett & Cathy Girvan Bunny Martin Marvin & Carolyn Schick Allison Carter David & Diane Goldsmith Bob & Joan Marx Anthony Schilling Trail Blazer Alice Castellanos Frank & Sarah Gotch James Mather Leo & Maryann Schindler ($50 or more) Reno & Shea Cervelli Larry & Cynthia Grabel Carolyn Matthews Eleonora & Christopher Schlies 307 donors have made Kris Chase Harvey & Linda Green Steve & Marcia Matthiesen Alex Schmid & Tina Hogan membership contribu- Marjorie Griffin Robert McClain Walt & B.R. Schmidt Tim Cleere tions in this category Charles Clem Donald & Melinda Groom Jim & Joan McCracken Gary & Diane Schneiderman Christine & Tom Clough Daniel & Linda Guerra L C McCune Mandy Schubarth Friends Mary Ann Halvorson James & Phyllis McDonald Jeff & Jacqueline Schubert Alan & Kathleen Clute ($35 or more) Patricia Coffey Mary Handel Mary Ann McGill Andrew Sessler Florence Cole Allan & Margaret Hansell Patrick & Donnalee McHenry Rich & Ann Sexton 219 donors have made Anne & Daniel Condon Michael & Jo-Ann Hansen Kate McKillop Donald & Lorraine Sharman membership contribu- Jennifer Cook Mona Hansen Helen McLaren William Sharp tions in this category 14 Michelle & Jack Campbell Philip & Henrietta Dubow Ed Sanderson In Honor of Mary Christensen D. B. Kenney Jeanne Thomas Heritage Trees Leslie & Gayle Servin Janice Anderson Bruce B. Smith Paul & Elizabeth Baxter In Memory of Bill Collins Diane L. Clapp Elizabeth Lathrap Kay Smith Carol Baxter Ruth Collins & Family Michael DiBenedetto Viriginia Heiderick Philip & Betty Lathrap Venice Smith Marcia Goodman-Lavey Norman Clegg Vincent P. Lawton Jacklyn & Geo. In Honor of Leonard and Steve Harris Leslie & Gayle Servin Kathleen Lawton MacKenzie Margaret Mahler John Curletto Robert Loeliger RC Vendetta Shari Judkins The Mahler Family Patricia A. Kozy Bill & Barbara Cynthia & W.R. Hardie James & Kat Walden Jenniffer Kozy Sickenberger Peggy Mahler Lucia Venos Jennie Phillips Margaret & Penn DeRoche Cecelia & Joseph Anthony David & Elizabeth Birka- Corporate Susie Hovey Christopher & Dee Dee Patricia Bentley White Match Ed & Carolyn Woods Cross Milton & Barbara Walkup Bob Walker Robert & Vikki Kristic Edward A Durell Les Hawkins Sara J Walker Bank of America My Fellow Artists Jacklyn & George John & Dorothy Wells Matching Gifts Program Jamie & Charlotte Panton MacKenzie Ruth Dixon Foundations Sydney Engelberg Elaine Anderson Clorox Gift Campaign Del Monte Foods In Memory of Charles Gresham Nancy Cossitt Anonymous Mrs. Evans Helen Honegger Johnson & Louise Clark Mal Warwick & Anne Brinckerhoff Robert & Mary Redmayne Mattson Lloyd & Sheila Charitable Foundation Associates, Inc. Kathryn Powell Toni Fauver Andres REI Outdoors Microsoft Matching Gifts Donald & Lorraine Lee McGill Ellen Burleigh B T Rocca Jr Foundation Program Sharman Beth Snortum Kathleen O’Brien San Francisco Foundation Vivendi Universal Anne Campbell Susan Watson Harvey & Phyllis Ceaser Robert Shively & Carol Anna Ferri Orville Morgan In-Kind Gifts Reilly Larry Ferri Mary Ann McGill All contributions Ana Fien Ray Grandlein Mary Beth Marshall & Marty Concord Feed & Pet Dottie Dorsett Mothorn were made from Peter Villa Supply Bob Hagin Don & Gladys Laston Betty Paul Bales of hay for July 31, 2004 Larry & Delane Sherman Joyce Kelly Betty Plewa Betty & Mitch Campbell Jean Hauser Kip & Sally Edwards erosion control through Jacqueline & Harley Barbara Hauser John Raventos Scott Moore December 31, 2004 Buettner Mary Dubow Howard Patricia & Gerald Donegan TV/VCR combo

Triple Threat !!! (cont. from Pg 1) Concord Naval Weapons Station Endangered Species Act huge traffic Concord has been the spoiler in discussions After 30 years of serving as one of our coun- inducing over a County Urban Limit Line—in part try’s last defenses against the destruction of delelop- because it’s interested in massive development our natural world, the Endangered Species ment. at the 13,000 acre Concord Naval Weapons Act is under attack from powerful corporate Please con- Station. It’s amending its General Plan to allow interests and their allies in Congress. tact these for as many as 33,000 new residents. Ask the cities and city council to “Hold The Line” on the current Opponents of endangered species have urge them Urban Limit Line, and when they update their announced their intent to devastate the ESA, to “Hold General Plan to: which protects our wolves, bald eagles, sea The Line” 1) protect the Naval Weapons Station east of otters, , and so many more. Burrowing owl (Scott Hein) at its pres- Mt. Diablo creek, ent location, as suggested in “Plan C” - 2) protect Mt. Diablo creek, and Congressman Richard Pombo, as chairman of proposed by SMD and other environ- 3) protect sensitive cultural areas. the House Resources Committee, has the mental and business groups. authority to maintain or weaken the ESA but Concord City Council (Laura M. Hoffmeister, has been attempting to make it unenforceable Concord City Council, 1950 Parkside Mayor; Susan Bonilla, Vice Mayor; Helen M. and meaningless. For this reason we are ask- Dr., Concord, CA 94519, Fax 925 671- Allen, Mark Peterson, Bill Shinn, ing our supporters to support a campaign 3375, [email protected] Councilmembers): City of Concord, 1950 coordinated by Defenders of Wildlife. If Antioch City Council, P.O. Box 5007, Parkside Dr., Concord, CA 94519, Fax: (925) you’re interested in getting involved, please Antioch, CA 94531, Fax 925 779-7034 671-3375, [email protected] send your name, address, telephone number www.ci.antioch.ca.us/_private/citycoun- and e-mail address to: cil.htm Please send copies to our congressional repre- [email protected] or contact Claudia Pittsburg City Council, 65 Civic Ave., sentatives: Riley at: [email protected] Pittsburg, CA 94565, Fax 925 252- Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher 4851, [email protected] 1034 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515, Let our representatives know that you support Brentwood City Council 708 Third (202) 225-1880, FAX (202) 225-5914; a strong Endangered Species Act: Street, Brentwood, CA 94513, Fax 925 http://www.house.gov/tauscher/IMA/get_addres Congressman Richard Pombo, Rayburn 516-5441, [email protected] s.htm , House Office Building, Washington, D.C. wood.ca.us 20515, 202-225-1947, FAX (202) 226-0861; Clayton City Council, 6000 Heritage Congressman George Miller www.house.gov/pombo/contact/comments- Trail, Clayton, CA 94517, Fax 925 672- 2205 Rayburn House Office Building, form.htm 4917www.ci.clayton.ca.us/clayton_con- Washington, DC 20515, (202) 225-2095 Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher & tact-us.php [email protected] Congressman George Miller (See contact information above) 15 Adopt a Heritage Tree Four Days Diablo: April 27 - 30, 2005 at Chaparral Spring An elegant experience Participants carry just a daypack, enjoy beautiful and lush landscapes and thou- Each April Save Mount Diablo leads its The Heritage Tree Program was established sands of wildflowers, and stroll into camp Four Days Diablo backpack trip on the 30- in 1994 after SMD acquired the 333-acre to gourmet meals prepared by area chefs. mile Diablo Trail. The four day-three night Chaparral Spring as the first link in the Mt. Experts are along to identify flora and adventure takes participants across six Diablo to Black Diamond Mines Corridor. fauna, and you will learn about the natural parks from Shell Ridge Open Space in and cultural history of the mountain. Tree adoptions range from $250 to $1,000 Walnut Creek to Round Valley Regional and groves range from $2,500 to $20,000. Preserve in Brentwood. As of mid-February registration is already The process of choosing a tree or grove is at 12. Space is limited to 20 participants at The route is on permanently protected open very personal. Some choose a tree where $750 per person. Don’t miss out - call 925 space and crosses just two narrow roads their family will be able to gather and pic- 947-3535 to reserve your spot. nic. Other supporters have chosen groves during the four days. that remind them of a loved one's favorite view or favorite type of habitat.

The journey to find the perfect tree or grove is just as enjoyable as the moment when it is found. The tree or grove becomes a liv- ing memory of loved ones or a joyous trib- ute to honor friends or family. Participants carry day packs with water and catered box lunchs (provided by Those who adopt a tree or grove can visit Sunrise Cafe). Sleeping bags, tents and on scheduled visitior days, or by personal other food are transported from site to appointment. If you are interested in a tree site by volunteers. As participants arrive or grove, call the SMD office at 925-947- in camp at the end of the day, they are 3535 greeted with refreshing drinks and receive assistance in setting up tents and inflating air mattresses. Each dinner is a catered feast. Included in the preperation of this year’s dinners will be chefs from: Prima Ristoraante Sunrise Bistro 1522 N. Main St. 1559 Botelho Dr. Walnut Creek Walnut Creek Peter Chastain Cindy Gershen Owner/Chef Owner 16 Save Mount Diablo's Mission . . the history and heritage of the mountain and its · Aid in the restoration of habitat and the protec- surrounding foothills To preserve Mount Diablo's peaks and surrounding tion of rare species · Work with landowners to preserve their prop- foothills through land acquisition and preservation · Offer technical advice to community and erty and to ensure that they receive fair value strategies to: protect the mountain's natural beauty, neighborhood groups regarding preservation of in any transaction aimed at preserving open integrity, and biological diversity; enhance our open space space area's quality of life; and provide recreational · Raise funds and sponsor events to build public · Work in partnership with Mt. Diablo State opportunities consistent with protection of natural awareness and to carry out our programs Park, East Bay Regional Park District, and resources. · Temporarily own and responsibly manage other public and private entities to increase lands prior to their transfer to a public agency In support of our mission, we: and manage open space and to identify mitiga- for permanent preservation. · Protect open space through purchases, gifts and tion opportunities · Encourage recreation and public enjoyment of cooperative efforts with public and private entities · Participate in the land use planning process for Mount Diablo's parklands consistent with the · Educate the public regarding threats to the moun- projects that could impact Mount Diablo and protection of their natural resources tain's flora, fauna and rugged beauty, as well as its surrounding foothills save MOUNT DIABLO Non-Profit

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