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Seth Adams, staff for Save Mount Diablo, aided Walker and Doyle in the long-term goal to protect natural areas in the region. In 1989 Save Mount Diablo bought the 631-acre (2.6 km²) Morgan Territory Ranch from descendants of the pioneer settler, placed a conservation easement on it, and transferred the property to Mt. Diablo State Park for ...
Aerial view of the Los Medanos foothills and Mount Diablo from over Suisun Bay at Concord, California. Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of 3,849 feet (1,173 meters ...
The area became known as the Mount Diablo Coalfield, the largest in California, producing more than 400 million short tons (357 million long tons) of coal during this time. [12] The area includes the remains of twelve coal mines and the sites of several long-gone coal mining towns. The Preserve contains over 200 miles (320 km) of mine workings.
Mount Diablo — landmark mountain of the northern Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County and the East Bay region of California. Pages in category "Mount Diablo" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Candelaria was founded in 1864 when Mexican prospectors working the area discovered silver deposits on the northern slopes of the mountain. [2] In 1873, the camp's most profitable mine, the Northern Belle, went into production.
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]
Mount Diablo Creek is a 14.3-mile-long (23.0 km) [2] northwest-flowing stream originating on the north flank of Mount Diablo.Its dozen small tributaries gather near Clayton before flowing through Concord and the Concord Naval Weapons Station, ultimately ending in tidelands on the southern shore of Suisun Bay in Contra Costa County.
Mary Leolin Bowerman (January 25, 1908 – August 21, 2005) was an American botanist, co-author of The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California; Their Distribution and Association into Plant Communities [1], and the co-founder of Save Mount Diablo.