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In 2007 Save Mount Diablo published Mount Diablo, Los Vaqueros & Surrounding Parks, Featuring the Diablo Trail, the most accurate and up-to-date map of Mount Diablo's more than 90,000 acres (36,000 ha) of protected lands. It includes 100 access points, 520 miles (840 km) of trail, and 400 miles (640 km) of private fire roads.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. This is a list of burn centers in the United States. A burn center or burn care facility is typically a hospital ward which specializes in the treatment of severe burn injuries. As of 2011, there are 123 self-designated burn care facilities in the United States. The American Burn ...
The rich coal deposits and sandstone hills of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve were formed by geological activity in the Tertiary period. [7] In the period between the Paleocene epoch and Miocene epoch of the Tertiary era, the North American Plate and the Pacific plate came together at a subduction zone where the North American Plate was pushed over the Pacific Plate.
In 1997, John Muir Medical Center merged with Mt. Diablo Medical Center, based in neighboring Concord, to form the John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health Network. Because Mt. Diablo was a publicly run facility, residents of the Mt. Diablo service area needed to approve the merger by popular vote, which they did in 1996. [7]
The Diablo Range attracts far more raptors than coastal forests, such as red-tailed hawks. Golden eagle nesting sites are found [11] in the Diablo Range, reaching their highest density in southern Alameda County. [12] [13] [14] The Bay checkerspot butterfly, a federally listed threatened species, has
LifeRing Secular Recovery (LifeRing or LSR) is a secular, non-profit organization providing peer-run addiction recovery groups. The organization provides support and assistance to people seeking to recover from alcohol and drug addiction , and also assists partners, family members and friends of addicts or alcoholics.
The planes also strafed the water near the ships. Later that day, sailors on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor built machine gun nests using Permanente Cement bags. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, 65,000 barrels were available in the Pacific, most of it in Permanente's privately owned bulk facilities in Honolulu, making it possible to quickly put the ...
From 1862–1936 the Mount Diablo buckwheat was found just a handful of times, for a total of seven historic records. In 1936 Mary Leolin Bowerman, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley and who later co-founded the Save Mount Diablo organization in 1971, recorded the last sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat. Bowerman made ...