2018-2019 Annual Report

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Effective April 1, 2019

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dear Supporters,

*Term ended in 2013

Malcolm Sproul, President

Burt Bassler, Treasurer

Scott Hein President

Claudia Hein, Secretary

Jim Felton

John Gallagher

Malcolm Sproul

Past President

Joe Garaventa

Liz Harvey Scott Hein

Burt Bassler Treasurer

Margaret Kruse

Frank Martens

Amara Morrison Secretary

Bob Marx

Robert Phelps

Heath Bartosh

Jeff Stone

Joe Canciamilla

Ken Dami*

STAFF

Ted Clement

John Gallagher

Executive Director

Claudia Hein

Seth Adams

Gary Johnson

Land Conservation Director

Doug Knauer

Karen Ferriere

Brian Kruse*

Director of Annual Giving & Events

Sue Ohanian

Meredith Hendricks

Our hearts sing out gratitude to all of you who helped us successfully protect more of the precious remaining natural places of the Mount Diablo area and connect our community to them this past fiscal year (which was a transition fiscal year from January 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019 as we move to an April–March fiscal year going forward).

and participating businesses the critical facts and figures about land conservation in our area. We also took the participants out to our conserved lands for meaningful experiences that developed a direct relationship between them and nature through environmental service projects, interpretive nature hikes, and contemplative solos in nature.

Marty Reed

Land Programs Director

Monica Oei

Finance & Administration Director

Art Bonwell

Marcia Slackman

Development Director

Dr. Mary Bowerman Founders

Lydia Burstyn

Development Associate

Caleb Castle

Communications Manager

Denise Castro

Stewardship & Outreach Associate

Hidemi Crosse

Senior Accountant

Juan Pablo Galván

Land Use Manager

Shannon Grover

Development Administrative Assistant

Dana Halpin

General Office Manager

Katie Lopez

Accounting & Administration Associate

Roxana Lucero

Land Stewardship Associate

Joanne McCluhan

Executive Assistant

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This past fiscal year, you helped us win protection for more than 1,200 acres in Antioch’s beautiful and ecologically significant Sand Creek Area next to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. After years of work, we achieved a huge victory last summer when the Antioch City Council adopted complementary initiatives, which we helped lead with the community coalition we built, thereby protecting more than 1,200 acres of hills, creek, woodland, and rare wildlife habitat in south Antioch, west of Deer Valley Road. Developers are now trying to undo those hard-won protections through litigation, and your support has enabled us to join that fight to keep that land protected for the benefit of all.

In the 2018–2019 fiscal year, your support helped us address “nature deficit disorder” in our young, wired generations through our Conservation Collaboration Agreement program with local schools and businesses. We completed Conservation Collaboration Agreements with various schools this past fiscal year: California State University–East Bay, Concord Campus; De La Salle High School; Pittsburg High School; Campolindo High School; and Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School.

In this program, we gave the students, educators,

This past fiscal year, your support enabled us to steward thousands of acres rich in conservation values. We have about 500 dedicated volunteers who support our staff team. Last year, our stewardship volunteers donated well over 4,000 work hours to our stewardship of the thousands of acres in our care. We only have two full-time stewardship staff, and our important stewardship work, like planting native trees, removing invasive species, and fire prevention work, would simply not be possible without these incredible volunteers who support our talented but limited staff.

Our annual Discover Diablo free public education hiking series offered 27 wellattended hikes last year, connecting hundreds of people in our community to the beautiful Mount Diablo natural area.

Thank you for helping us protect more of the remaining natural places of the Mount Diablo area and connect our community to them so we can all be transformed for the better.

Edward Sortwell Clement, Jr. Executive Director With Gratitude,

Scott Hein

Protecting Diablo’s Wild Lands

This map shows the expansion of protected lands on Mount Diablo from 6,788 acres in 1971 , when Save Mount Diablo was founded, to over 110,000 acres that have been protected by save mount diablo and our great partners.

these natural lands.

Save Mount Diablo’s area of interest is bounded by I-680 to the west, I-580 to the south, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay to the north, and the Delta to the east. Save Mount Diablo continues to monitor development projects proposed in the area, focusing on connecting and expanding new and existing parks and preserves while working with our allies to preserve, protect, restore, and promote enjoyment of

Preserve Land Acquisition

2018

was a year of enhancing how we manage our properties while continuing long-term, complex negotiations to protect several very high-priority areas of land.

For decades, Save Mount Diablo was able to buy properties and then quickly transfer them to a public park agency. That model kept our land management responsibilities very limited, and the projects we undertook were mainly focused on trash removal, fire abatement, and some restoration work.

About a decade ago, the transfer time started to slow down. In part, the slowdown in transfer time was because California State Parks stopped acquiring new land in order to focus on maintaining the parks it already owned.

It has been more than 13 years since a property was added to Mount Diablo State Park, something we have been working diligently to change. However, as our ambitions about preserving the Diablo wild lands grew, we began to buy more land farther away from existing parks with a strategy to connect them in the future.

As a result of the slowdown in property transfers, we had to step up our long-term stewardship efforts.

Scaling up our land management operations over the last several years has allowed us to deepen opportunities for people to get involved with caring for our properties and enjoying their beauty.

We now oversee multi-year restoration projects, an all-star stewardship volunteer pool, a year-round free public hike program, research in action, a conservation-based grazing program, and a field station at Curry Canyon Ranch.

Scaling Up Stewardship and Building a Strong Foundation for Land Acquisition

We hired two caretakers who now live at our Wright Canyon property and support all of our stewardship obligations. This step enabled us to move forward with plans to transform the house at Curry Canyon Ranch into the Curry Canyon Ranch field station—a hub for researchers, our partners, and our supporters to connect more closely with and deepen our understanding of Mount Diablo.

Multi-year research projects are underway at Curry Canyon that are focused on the identification and behavior of insect populations in Curry Creek. And on dry land, we began the early stages of a streamflow monitoring program.

We continue to negotiate complex property transactions, the fruits of which will be brought to bear in the coming year. Our partners, especially the East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservancy and East Bay Regional Park District, have continued the work to encircle the Marsh Creek and Morgan Territory areas in open space and place critical protections over essential habitat corridors. We meet with landowners and developers alike to push for high-quality mitigation associated with new developments. We coordinate closely with our partners on strategic additions to the overall network of preserved lands on and around Mount Diablo.

As part of our Forever Wild Capital Campaign, we are working to establish a Land Acquisition Opportunity Fund to ensure we are ready and able to act on a transaction quickly.

For now, we continue to build up a strong foundation for future land conservation.

Defend Land Use Planning & Advocacy

LAND USE PLANNING

As development heats up, so do we. We defended Mount Diablo and its foothills by monitoring over 50 planning agendas weekly. We attended numerous meetings and had significant involvement in more than a dozen projects and policy issues. Although we responded in some way to about 20 projects and testified at numerous hearings in 2018, by far our deepest involvement was a grassroots campaign to protect three square miles of land threatened by large-scale suburban development in eastern Contra Costa County.

ANTIOCH

2018 could rightly be called the “Year of Antioch” for Save Mount Diablo land use advocacy. We drafted the “Let Antioch Voters Decide” initiative to protect three square miles of grassland, creek, and wildlife habitat in the Sand Creek area west of Deer Valley Road in south Antioch. From March through early June, hundreds of Save Mount Diablo supporters and Antioch residents collected nearly 10,000 signatures to qualify our initiative for the city ballot.

We also organized walks along Sand Creek and many neighborhood talks and community forums to inform residents and get them involved. We spoke with the Antioch City Council and the developers to try and protect the area’s most important natural resources and scenic views.

Our hard work paid off in August 2018, when the Antioch City Council adopted our initiative. Although the council had adopted a developer’s initiative a month earlier, that initiative basically copied ours and achieved 70 percent of what our own initiative would do, while allowing an improved version of their own development project to occur.

Save Mount Diablo led this fight, but it wouldn’t have been possible without the hundreds of individual residents and supporters who volunteered to help collect signatures, and the contributions of our partners at Greenbelt Alliance, Sierra Club, and other organizations. After the adoption of both

initiatives in August, other developers sued. Your support has enabled us to join the litigation and work to defend the adopted initiatives that provide important protections to over 1,200 acres of the Sand Creek Focus Area.

PITTSBURG

The beautiful hills that lie southwest of Pittsburg and separate central Contra Costa County from eastern Contra Costa County face a huge threat. A Seeno company is proposing the Faria project, which would build 1,500 houses on top of this beautiful scenic ridgeline and next to a new regional park.

We responded to Faria’s inadequate Environmental Impact Report with substantial legal-quality comments while laying the groundwork for grassroots advocacy in Pittsburg to inform residents about what’s going on.

PROPOSITION 68

On June 5, California voters approved Prop. 68, the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access for All Act of 2018. Several years ago, Save Mount Diablo started working with our legislators and partners to advance legislation that would allow for the first statewide parks bond in almost 15 years. Eventually, we and our partners were successful and got the legislation passed that paved the way for Prop. 68.

SMD contributed funds to the Prop. 68 campaign and also served on the campaign committee that worked to pass Prop. 68. And through television, online video, social media, and other efforts, we helped get the word out.

Contra Costa and Alameda Counties ended up having higher approval ratings for the Prop. 68 bond than the statewide approval rate. Now that Prop. 68 has been passed, there are millions of dollars available for local, regional, and state parks, as well as restoration and climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

defending diablo’s wild lands through advocacy

Land use advocacy is one of our most effective and important tools to protect the natural lands on and around Mount Diablo, but each victory must be defended as threats reappear again and again. Your support makes it possible for us to continue to defend natural lands like Sand Creek or Pittsburg’s hills before it’s too late.

Cooper Ogden

Stephen Joseph

Restore Stewardship

Save Mount Diablo currently owns or manages 18 properties— totaling nearly 2,000 acres. These properties include perpetual conservation easements on two properties, totaling 22 acres. We also restore sites on two properties we don’t own.

Here are some of the accomplishments we are especially proud of this fiscal year.

• We created a management plan for Anderson Ranch, purchased in 2017.

• We have 35 property monitors and 90 volunteer stewards.

• We worked on five restoration projects on 23 Diablo Restoration Team (DiRT) workdays, engaging more than 500 volunteers, including local schools and community groups.

• We completed an additional 22 workdays to treat non-native, invasive species on Save Mount Diablo properties using an Integrated Pest

Management approach, as well as 26 stewardship workdays.

• We began restoration of our Marsh Creek 7 property with a Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Committee grant, seeding native bunchgrasses in the footprint of the modular home that was removed in 2017, and planting more than 150 trees and shrubs in the floodplain.

• We completed 200 plantings across five planting sites on the Ang property (owned by East Bay Regional Park District), including willow stakes, acorn plantings, and buckeye nuts.

• We hosted three Eagle Scout projects on several different properties, including a bench installation at both our Marsh Creek 4 and Marsh Creek 6 properties, a gate installation at Wright Canyon, and a shed covering for the water system at the Curry Canyon Ranch field station.

• We developed key features of the field research and education station at

Curry Canyon Ranch. We made major improvements to the interior of the ranch house, constructed a donorrecognition seat wall, and added a new perimeter fence and pathways.

• We tended to fire and storm damage. Three of our properties on Marsh Creek burned last summer. We’re working on cleanup, fence and water system replacement, and restoration plans. Following up on storm damage from 2017, we replaced a washed-away footbridge at Big Bend (our Marsh Creek 8 property).

• We organized a Coastal Cleanup workday in Kirker Creek. Students from Pittsburg High and other community members removed all sorts of trash from the macro to the micro, including cigarette butts, fast food waste, and packing material. This year, we were able to remove 16 extra-large garbage bags full of debris (about 960 gallons), enough to fill our whole trailer!

Thanks to All of Our Volunteers

~ 500 volunteers

7,500+ hours

Volunteers are the life force of Save Mount Diablo. From setting up tables for Moonlight on the Mountain once a year to dedicating dozens of hours stewarding our properties, we can’t do it without our talented and generous volunteers. Our volunteers not only work side by side with us, they give us an extra dose of inspiration to continue our work to preserve open spaces right here in the Bay Area for people and wildlife to enjoy. We thank all of our volunteers from the bottom of our hearts.

Michael McSherry

Laura Kindsvater

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Laura Kindsvater

Laura Kindsvater

Enjoy Recreation

Each year, we invite people to enjoy the beauty of the Diablo wild lands through different types of recreational events.

We hosted numerous events on the mountain to share the area’s wildlife and cultural history with our supporters and to encourage recreation consistent with the protection of natural resources.

• Save Mount Diablo and Brazen Racing partnered again to host the Diablo Trails Challenge, with a distance for nearly every interest: a 50K, half marathon, 10K, and 5K. More than 1,200 trail runners enjoyed a beautiful day out on the trails.

• Cyclists put their climbing skills to the test riding up Mount Diablo’s slopes to the summit. For the 37th annual Mount Diablo Challenge, over 530 cyclists rode 11.2 miles,

Thanks to the support of CA Technologies and the Nathan M. Ohrbach Foundation, SMD added over 500 new and renewed members to our organization who participated in this year’s challenge.

• Twenty participants in Four Days Diablo, our annual backpacking tour, enjoyed learning more about Mount Diablo’s treasures while hiking and camping along the 31-mile Diablo Trail. Dedicated volunteers set up the campsites and local restaurants— including Postino, Forbes Mill, and Sunrise Bistro & Catering—prepared delicious meals for the adventurers.

• Over 500 guests attended our 17th annual Moonlight on the Mountain celebration, our signature gala with live music, dancing, silent and live auctions, and a gourmet dinner by Sunrise Bistro & Catering.

“Discover Diablo” Hikes—397 hikers attended 27 outings on Save Mount Diablo properties and collaborating agencies’ land. Nearly all hikes sold out. Staff and volunteer hike leaders hosted this series of free public hikes as part of the Discover Diablo program, now in its third year, which is sponsored by the Shell Martinez Refinery.

Moonlight on the Mountain is held at China Wall in Mount Diablo State Park, a stunningly gorgeous and intimate venue that creates a special atmosphere for our guests. Over $450,000 was raised to support Save Mount Diablo.

• We published an updated 2018 edition of our free recreational Mount Diablo Regional Map featuring the Diablo Trail. For the first time, we also made this fourth edition map available online and on mobile devices as a downloadable geospatial PDF that is compatible with phone map systems like Avenza. You can request a hard copy by contacting our office by email or phone. This update was made possible with support from Fremont Bank.

397 hikers

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Scott Hein

Laura Kindsvater

Laura Kindsvater

Scott Hein

Learn Education & Outreach

Save Mount Diablo connects people to and inspires people with nature in a myriad of ways.

Here are some of our efforts and accomplishments in education and outreach between January 2018 and March 2019.

• Save Mount Diablo granted more than $12,000 via our Dr. Mary Bowerman Science and Research Program. The program supported research and discoveries about the Diablo region by awarding grants to researchers working on all sorts of topics, including Marsh Creek’s volcanic domes, golden eagle populations, aquatic insect and native bee diversity, ground squirrel behavior, and cyanide resistance in certain beetle species. Grants have been awarded to organizations such as UC Berkeley, the Northern California Geological Society, the United States Geological Survey, CSU Stanislaus, and Mills College. Seven

2018 BioBlitz Survey Results

grants were given between January 2018 and March 2019. We hosted our fifth annual colloquium in December to present the findings of recently conducted research.

• Save Mount Diablo hosted its 11th annual BioBlitz in Arroyo Del Cerro. With the help of scientific experts, naturalists, and enthusiastic volunteers, we recorded 419 total species.

• We filmed two television segments—A Vision for Mount Diablo and An Interview with Seth Adams: Defending the Pittsburg Hills, Youth Advocacy, and Imagining a Summit-to-Sea Trail— featured on NBC Bay Area’s OpenRoad with Doug McConnell, reaching tens of thousands of viewers.

• We sponsored and released two new Audible Mount Diablo Guides to the Outdoors series—Black Diamond Mines and Harvest of Fire: A Hiker’s Guide to Mount Diablo Plants— and placed the next guide into

production. We also held two soldout screening events to premiere the two new series featuring Q&A panels with special guests, and published the Audible Guides to a new mobile podcast platform.

• To honor the three decades of service given by Save Mount Diablo’s Land Conservation Director, Seth Adams, we organized a special 30th anniversary celebration at the Lesher Center of the Arts in Walnut Creek, attended by nearly 300 guests.

• From land management projects to supporting events, office operations, community outreach, and recreation, about 500 volunteers completed more than 7,500 hours of service.

• We held numerous speakers series events and gave multiple presentations to the public.

• We launched a newly updated modern and mobile-friendly website: www.SaveMountDiablo.org. (Check it out!)

Community Conservation Collaboration Agreement Program

We completed four Conservation Collaboration Agreements, with Pittsburg High School, Campolindo High School, De La Salle High School together with California State University–East Bay (Concord), and Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School.

The CCAs help students connect with nature in the Mount Diablo area through ecological restoration work, interpretive nature hikes, and contemplative solos in nature. These CCAs were generously sponsored by Progressive Asset Management and Bedell Frazier Investment Counselling.

Caleb Castle

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Al Johnson

FOREVER WILD

A Reality Thanks to a Community That Is Passionate about Mount Diablo

Our ambitious Forever Wild campaign targeting a goal of $15 million to protect critical properties and build a Land Acquisition Opportunity Fund, a Stewardship Endowment Fund, and a Legal Defense Fund has reached almost $10.8 million, nearly three-quarters of our goal.

After a gap in development team leadership and staffing during the first half of 2018, the campaign picked up steam in the fall and winter quarters, and closed the year exceeding our adjusted goal with more than $527,000 in gifts and written pledges.

In that extended 15-month year, 76 contributors stepped up to invest in Forever Wild , with gifts ranging from $20 to $100,000. We thank these supporters and all those who have joined us to build these funds in 2018 and in previous years.

The Forever Wild campaign’s significant progress is possible because we are a community of people who are passionate about and take pride in the more than 110,000 acres of wild lands that surround Mt. Diablo. We are hikers and walkers, bikers and birders, artists and botanists, and people who simply gain sustenance from the beauty of wild lands so close to our own backyards.

Forever Wild creates an incredible opportunity to have a lasting impact on the health of our communities by maintaining the integrity of our lush green spaces, keeping our watersheds healthy and our local wild lands habitable for wildlife.

Over the past year, supporters have had a huge impact on the campaign by choosing ways to give that would maximize their gift to Forever Wild , such as gifts of property and life insurance. Other donors have enabled us to announce matching challenges, which we have met.

We are grateful to each and every one of our Forever Wild supporters. Your investment in Forever Wild is an investment in keeping our unique Mount Diablo region a strong, healthy, and desirable place to live, work, and play. It is an investment in keeping our wild lands and wildlife, as well as our quality of life, sustainable.

To learn more about supporting Forever Wild , please contact Development Director Marcia Slackman at mslackman@savemountdiablo.org or call (925) 947-3535 ext. 13.

The acorn woodpecker is a common resident of oak woodlands on Mount Diablo and depends on oak trees and their acorns as a primary food source. Acorn woodpeckers are known for storing large numbers of acorns in small holes they drill in “granary trees.” They are highly social and often live in communal groups.

Support Financials

T2018-2019 (15-month budget cycle)

hese pie charts include financial information for Save Mount Diablo’s annual operating results (revenue and expenses), as well as land transaction capital items. We changed from a calendar year to a March 31st fiscal year-end. Therefore, the information is for the 15-month budget cycle between January 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019.

Since no attractive land or conservation easements materialized, there were no purchases of land during the fiscal year. Thus, our land acquisition costs were less than usual, resulting in a smaller percentage of total cost, and a correspondingly higher percentage of fundraising and administrative costs than would normally be the case. We have, however, built a substantial pipeline of potential land purchases and conservation easements.

Save Mount Diablo’s total revenue for January 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019 was just over $2.7 million (including restricted and unrestricted funding). The pie chart shows the importance of individual contributions: three-quarters of our funding comes from donors like you!

Expenditures for January 1, 2018-March 31, 2019 general operating expenses totaled about $3.5 million. Program expenses other than land acquisition include stewardship projects on the 18 properties and easements we own, community education and outreach, and advocacy to counter land conservation threats.

*Numbers are based on unaudited January 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019 financials.

Please visit www.savemountdiablo.org/ about/financials to see our most recent 990 tax returns.

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Dana & Dave Dornsife

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Giselle Jurkanin**

Carol Lane**

Larry & Joan Porter*

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Jim & Bette Felton*

Shirley Langlois

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Dick & Laurie Morrison

Sylvia Simon*

Malcolm & Casey

Sproul***

Gene Underwood & Timothy Cleere

Charitable Fund

Jacob Van Akkeren & Leslie Bartholic***

John & Linda

Van Heertum***

John F. Waggoner**

Save Mount Diablo extends its gratitude to all donors.

Your generous support makes it possible to balance open space with the demands of increasing population and development pressure in our area. Together, we can preserve, defend, restore, and enjoy Mount Diablo and its foothills.

Donations made between January 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019.

Asterisks denote donors who have given for 10+(*), 20+ (**), or 30+(***) consecutive years.

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Patricia Weeden

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Parker Barnum

Lynn & Jason Baskett

Jim Baxter

Stephen & Karen Beck**

Geoffrey Bellenger*

Mark & Silvia Belotz**

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Steve & Pam Biggs*

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George Doddington & Elizabeth Hudson*

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Robert & Polly Gould*

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Jean Halford***

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Scott & Claudia Hein**

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Mary P. Hicks

William & Marilyn Hoenig

Margaret Holmes

Bill & Lesley Hunt

Carolyn R. Hunt**

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Frank & Judy Jesse

Darryl & Beverly Johnson

Jeffrey & Kathleen Johnson

John & Linda Judd**

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John H. Kiefer***

Robert Kieckhefer*

John & Joyce Klassen

Mike & Ann Koch

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Margaret Kruse*

Joan Kunz*

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Jim & Sharon Lawrence*

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Steve & Kim O’Brien Charitable Fund*

Sue & Steve Ohanian*

Charles & Anne Olsen**

David & Dolores Olson

Donald & Georg Palmer***

Christopher & Margaret Panton***

Lawrence Peirano**

Nadine Peterson & Michael Tuciarone*

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Brad & Trish Piatt

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James & Gloria Redmond*

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Joe & Anne Roberts

Susan & Gerd Rosenblatt*

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Jeanne Ryan

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Dan & Janet Schalk**

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James & Patricia Scofield**

Adam & Nicki Scott*

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Joan & Lynn Seppala

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Robert & Leslie Singer

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Jerry & Maren Smith

Richard & Sandra

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Joseph Wettstein*

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Martha Whittaker**

Kelsey Wilson

Thomas M. Wood

Stephanie Woods*

John Woodworth & Jennifer Jay

Earl, Marlys, & Seth Worden**

Ron & Rebecca Yee*

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Judy Adler*

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Dave Allsop

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Carolyn

Michael Colombo*

James P. Comerford

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Jim

Elizabeth Crane*

Monthly Donor Circle

This special circle of donors helps provide steady, reliable support by donating monthly. Their generosity ensures Save Mount Diablo can continue to preserve, defend, and restore Diablo’s wild lands.

Jean

Mark

Marilyn

Brett

Patricia

Anonymous (3)

John Allen

Alan & Helen Appleford

Kenneth & Linda Back

Steve & Carolyn Balling

Marge W. Barry

Sandra Berggren

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Robert & Kim

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Janet Evans

Lawrence E. Ferri

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Scott

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Donald Seaver

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Bruce & Mary Jo Byson**

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Christopher Cherney

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Richard &

Christensen

Rosemary Clark*

Jim

Robert

Elise Clement Cutler

Dinah L.

Vickie Dawes*

Marilyn Day*

Mark & Elaine Day*

Lauren

Alma DeBisschop

Jon

Donald

Alex

Elizabeth Fuchs

Bruce

David Fung

Leslie

Dan

Karl

Mark &

Barbara

Grant

Sue

David &

Elise

David

Gene &

Edward Clement

Don

John

Virginia H

Scott

Paul Glassner

Federal Glover

Carmen Violich-Goodin & Douglas Goodin*

Patrick Graney

Barbara Grant**

John S. Gravell

Jeff Gravelle

Janet Gray

Matt Gray

Joan Greaves

Jeff & Judy Greenhouse*

Sandra J. Greenwood*

Dan & Kathy Griffin

Diane Griffiths

Julie Grisham & Kenneth Winters

Grant Guerra

Charlie & Ginger Guthrie*

Connie Gutierrez

Carolyn Gwynn

Greg Hahn & Wendy Cole

Robert Hahn

Liede-Marie Haitsma

Marilyn Halberg

Joyce Hambrick

Mike & Mary Handel*

Tom Hansen

John & Esther Harris*

John Harris & Lisa Palermo**

Steven & Terri Haslam*

Christie Hastings*

Barbara Hauser**

Corinne Hawkins

Walter & Anne Hayden

Donald & Claire Hayes

Susan Heckly & Tom Howard*

Julia Henshaw

Katherine & Alan Hern

Jacqueline Hershey

Bob & Diane Herzog

Jim & Kathleen Hillman

John & Joan Hines*

Phyllis & Jerry Hobson*

Sue and Jim Hogan

Kenneth Hogue*

Richard J. Holden

Ann Holzhueter*

Tony Homes

Peggie Howell

Lisa Hubbart*

Carol & Bert

Kenneth & Joanne

Hughes

Margaret &

Mike Hummel

Donald C. Hunt*

Jeanette Hurwitz

Richard Ingalls*

Antonio & Lisa Inserni

Nick & Patsy Jabuka

Linda & Steven Jacobs*

Jane James

Toril Jelter

Sheela & Shashi Jivan

Al Johnson

Ardis Jarrett & Sally Johnson

Linda & Neal Johnson

Irene Jones**

Elizabeth King-Sloan***

Timothy Kingston

Steven Kinney

Christophyer Kinsel

Hilary & Danny Kirk

Gerald & Rosette Koch**

Therese Konz

Gregg & Anne Korbin

Robert & Lynda Korsan*

Wayne Korsinen

Paul & Tia Kratter

Jesse & Sharon Krider**

H. David Kwinter**

Lisa & David Lamm

Alan & Marilyn Lindquist

Steven & Judy Lipson

Jennifer Lloyd

Catherine Locke

Beverly & David Loder

Shirlee Loret

Gloria Lotten

Janet & Neville Luhmann*

Vladan & Margita Lunacek*

Paul & Julie Lundstedt*

Rennett MacIntyre

Terrence Mackin

Justin Maguda

Diablo Legacy Circle

Making a donation is generous. Making a long-term gift is an act beyond measure. We give special thanks to our Diablo Legacy Circle members, those who have included Save Mount Diablo in their estate planning. Their generosity ensures Mount Diablo, its foothills, and its wildlife will be preserved for generations to come.

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Tracy Achelis & Vincent Sciortino

Barbara Ageno

Carol Alderdice

Hanna & Gene Alger

Susan & Robert

Helen & Alan Appleford

Linda & Kenneth Back

Burt Bassler

Meg Beeler & Tom von Tersch

Jan Berckefeldt

Steve & Pam Biggs

Burt Bogardus

Martha H.

Bob & Cindy

Carolyn Butler

Suzanne &

Joan Duffield & Andy Cuellar, Jr.

Jacqueline Jones*

Tanya Jones

Tom Jones

Rick Joosten

Mark & Cynthia Jordan

Mary Juarez

Joel Kaminsky

Ursula Kaprielian

Bob Kattenburg & Jill McFadden

Janet Laston Katzer

Dick & Tina Kauffman**

Maya Kennedy*

Jerry & Lola Kent*

Jane Lamph

Terry & Lisa Lane

Carol P. LaPlant

Michael & Jane Larkin*

Jeri & Steven Larsen

Janet Larson

Michele Lasagna

Eric & Sara Lautenbach

Bryan & Marilyn Lawver*

Anne LeBlanc*

Sandy & Doug Leich

Mary & Bud Lembke

David J. Lenehan**

Kathryn Leonard

Jim & Bette Felton

Ginny Fereira

Peter & Robin

Charla Gabert &

John & Tena

Peter Gochis

Charles Gresham

William Grizzell

Chris Grossgart

Scott & Claudia Hein

Stephanie Kleinjan

Carol Lane

Shirley Langlois

Randi & Herb Long

Richard & Susan Mason

Philip Matthews &

Dick & Laurie Morrison

Steve & Kim O’Brien

Sue

Christopher &

Dan & Dolores Mahoney*

Jon Maienschein & Lisa Cline*

Christophe & Brigitte Majewski

Bob & Diane Malucelli**

Joan Mancuso

Richard A. Mangini*

Monica March

Margaret Hanlon-Gradie

Carl & Kathy Markham*

Kathleen Martin

Mark Mason

Moira McCabe

Barry

Bill &

Janice

Hoang-Nam

David &

John & Ann Noll*

Don & Debbie Noyes

Lindsey Noyes

Vicki Nuetzel

John Nygard**

Janet O’ConnellMangham*

John & Christine Odom

John & Dianne Ollila*

Carol Olson

Carol Pachl

Nido Paras

Edward & Marcia Parham

Michael & Janice Partansky

Jag & Judy Patel

Paul Paton

Thomas E. Patterson

Betty Paul

Birgit & Edward Pearson*

Dale & Jeanne Perkins*

Fred & Virginia Peterson

Liz Piatt**

John Pidoli

Jordan & Noreen Pitta*

Joyce Pollack**

Geoff Pollard

Roy & Carol Pollock

Donna Preece*

Stewart & Sherry Proctor

Jerry Yanowitz &

Ron & Vivian Proto

Larry Prud’homme

Kerry Randall

Richard & Rayna Ravitz

Sue Reynolds

Kim Michaud

Dr. Linda M. Miller*

Ray & Irene Milne

Doris Moberg

Walter &

Carl Monismith

Linda Montague*

Tim & Roberta

Joseph

Joan

Robert & Patricia Rezak

Tim Rich*

Brian & Janet Richards

Lois Riddle

Claudia & Leon Rismiller

Barbara & Michael

Robben

Cavett Robert

Jim & Nita Roethe*

Juanita & Terres

Ronneberg

Melitta Rorty*

Jim Rosenau

Michael

Frances

Gene &

Hummel

Jan & Scott Kilner

Elaine King

Jean King*

Marian King

Tony & Amy Leung*

Sita & Bob Likuski

Manfred & Bernice

Lindner*

Judith & Lindsay McCall

Joanne McCarthy

Marta & Michael McClellan

Sue Rosenberg

Jay & June Rosenthal*

Stephen Rothwell

Robert & Lynn Roundy

Tim Miller

David Mills

Leigh & Carol Mintz*

Kensey & Dan Mires

Alene Miskovetz

Shelley Mitchell

Shahram Moatazedi

Preetam Modur

Mohammad Mohsin

Jesse Moore

Kenneth & May Mooyman

Santiago Morales

Leslie & Randall Morelli*

Lisa Morgan

Louise Morgan

James Morris

Robert & Megan Moynihan

Peter Nagle

Roger Nelson

Theron Nelson***

Tim Nelson

Rolf & Elise Neuweiler

Andrew Newman

William & Carol Newman

Crystal Nieto

Babak Nikanjam

Catherine Noel

Claire Northall

Robert & Mary-Jo Noth*

Magdalena Novotna

Lydia Noyes

Ali Nufire

John & Kathleen Odne

Egon Pedersen

Anne & Steven Pelayo

Jeremy Pendrey

Denise Perkins

Joel Perlstein*

Angelo & Darice Peruch

Cindy & Bob Pester

Jane H. Peterson*

Michael Pfisterer

Kirk Philippou

James Pierle

John Piva

Sally Rathbun

Greg Rauch

Sara Rauch

Timothy Rauch

Margaret Ready

Hubert & Joan Reber*

Debra J. Rebhahn

Chris Reed

Judy Reens

David Reese

David & Frances Reneau*

Pamela Reuling

Zac Rossen

Mark Rossi

Claire Roth*

Dirk Roth

Jennifer Russell

Joseph Ryan

Judy Ryan

Michael Saba

Irene Salel

Stuart Sampson

Bonnie Sanders

Kent & Julie Sasaki*

Simchi

Noah Simcoff

John & Sue Simmonds*

Josh Simpson

Allan Sison

David & Andrea Smethurst*

Aaron Smith

Clayton Smith*

Michael & Stacy Smith

Nickolai Smith

Sally Smyth

Company Matching

Many generous employers will match their employees’ donations, thereby doubling the impact of the employees’ gift. These companies matched donations to Save Mount Diablo, allowing their employees to help preserve, defend, and restore more land for all of us to enjoy. Ask if your company matches too!

Yvonne O’Drain

Kendall & Monica Oei*

Pat Oflaherty

Nora Okusu

William Oldham

Ron Olson

Carrie O’Neill

Charlotte O’Neill

Niall Oregan

Lorraine Osborn

Johanna O’Shea & Christopher Devine

Dylan Owen

Carly Clements Owens

Sayed Oyumi & Nazifa

Nawabzada

Al Pacheco

Fernando Padilla

Greg & Nancy Page*

Marcie Palmer

Peter & Amy Palmer

Sean & Sarah Parnell

Doryce R. Partridge

Eugene & Mary Lou

Paschal

Jason Patent

Anne-Lise Peachee

Susie Pearsall

Maria Stevens

Terry & Annette Stinnett

Giovanna Stockman

Jason & Melissa Straka

Terri Strickland

Sudhakar

Subashchandrabose

Fred Sullivan**

Jen Sung

Jeffrey & Sue Supran

Ashley & Eric Susterka

Bob & Ann Sutherland**

Paul Swatek***

Laura Sweet

Genie Swyers

Eddy Tabet

Anthony Tam

Leiman Tam

Thomas Tantillo

Margo Tarver

Tashi Tash

Luns Tee

Beatrice Pixa*

Timothy Platt & Sherida Bush

Maureen Polacci

Michael Polan

Christopher Polis

David Polk

Anthony Pound

Jason & Kimberly Powell

Jerry Powell & Elizabeth Randal

Virginia Preston*

Michael Price

Andrea E. Proctor*

Daniel Pugh

Robert Pulford

Steve Pulford

Philip & Judy Quinlan*

Stephen Quinn

Allison Raaum

Michael Rabot

Russ Rackow

Dan Rademacher

Wendy & Matt Raggio

Steven Ralston

Paul Randall

Matt Raschke

Craig Rasmussen

ACCO Engineered Systems

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Apple, Inc.

Bank of America*

Bank of the West**

Chevron**

Clif Bar & Company

General Electric

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Google*

Enterprise

Doron Reuveni

Jason & Amy Ribando

Tim & Jill Rich

Justin Riele

Ernie Riley

Lilia Riley

Tom Riley

Cynthia Rinker

Sandra & John Ritchie

Eric & Andrea Ritigstein

David & Kristin Ritterbush

James Rivers

Rob & Tori Dela Santi

Robert & Wendy Stannard

Ellyn Roberts

Nancy Roberts

Gael Rodgers

Roger & Debbie Smith

Elinor Rogers

Sue Rohlicek

Enrique A. Rojas

Daniel Romero

Chuck Roncancio

Marion Rood

Regina Rose

William & Beverly Rose

Julie Ross

HP Inc. IBM Corporation* Intel Corporation Intuit

Kaiser Permanente* Lam Research

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LinkedIn Corporation McKesson Corporation

PayPal

Leslie & Kenneth Satin*

Celia Schiffman

Jacob & Sarah Schiller

Marvin Schinnerer

Stacy Schlotfeldt

Brian Schmidt

Christine Schmidt

Remy Schmidt

Marcus Schnarr

Christine Schneller

Scott & Michelle Johns

Cece Sellgren

Luisa Sempere

Karin Sentinella

Robert Sentinella

Louise Shalit*

Jeffrey Shaw

Susan Sherrerd

Michael Shinn

Shorenstein

Robert & Carol Shuey**

Sue & Brad Shuster

Michael Siefritz

Nancy Siegel

Sandra & Al Silva

Rick & Katrina Silvani

Paula Silver

PG&E*

Ripple Salesforce

Shell Martinez Refinery Target

Texas Instruments Foundation

The CLOROX Company*

The Omidyar Group

Wetherby Asset Management

Richard Soderberg

Ben Soja

Marco Solorio

Jim Sowers

Nancy Spiecker

Paul D. Spiegel***

Catherine Sproul

Gina & Don Spruance

Isaiah Stackhouse

Adrian Staff

Shelley Stafford

Terri & Gregory Stanfield

Millard & Linda Stanley

Alan Stanton

James Stanton

Tim Steele

Eliana Stefani

Jovanni Stefani

Katherine Christine Steffensen

Colin Steidtmann

Richard & Diane Stein*

Nicole Steinmetz

Jamie & Robert Stephenson

Mike & Cindy Stern

Dmitry Terentyev

Mary F. Terjeson**

Kristen Terry

Davis Teselle

Andrew Theron

Stan Thomas

Tad Thomas

Chad & Kathleen

Thompson

Dianne Thompson

Michael & Maureen

Thompson

Finn Thomsen

Bill & Betty Todd*

Deborah Toll White

Tina Tomei

Sue Tomidy

Rachel Tomlinson

Ronald R. Toombs

Ronald Topping**

Mark & Jaylyn Torres

Marge Tovani

Sean Trambley

Ted Trambley*

Stephanie Tran

Tien Tran

Marie-Claire Trown

Jill Tucker*

Susan & Paul Turney*

Michael Tyrrell*

Shon Urbas

Ralph & Veronica Vaca*

Felipe Valdez

Danny Valencia

Gary Valle

Paige Valle

Jeanine Vandaveer

Clark Vandell

Kevin Vanderende

Al Johnson

The Diablo wild lands are our backyard. It’s ours to protect. If we don’t do it, who will?