Save Mount Diablo
Celebrating 25 Years of Protecting Mount Diablo
Save Mount Diablo in the 1990's 25th Anniversary, Part III
Fall 1996, No.20
Grand Slam! Save Mount Diablo Directors Win Two Awards!
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Editor's Note: This issue of Diablo Watch concludes a threepart narrative of our history. Susan Watson became president of Save Mount Diablo as it expanded in the face of increasing threats to the mountain and decreasing public resources for acquisition. Even so, the 1990's have been a period of unprecedented expansion of public open space.
In May 1992 Save Mount Diablo purchased theThree Springs Parcel on the slopes of North Peak. It was added to Mt. Diablo State Park on April 10, 1993.
In Part II, Bob Doyle recounted the eventful joining in 1989 of Mt. Diablo State Park with the East Bay Regional Park District's Morgan Territory Regional Preserve in Riggs Canyon. Although at that time the "join" was only a point at the corners of the two properties, the event marked a shift in the goals of Save Mount Diab lo - the mountain's open spaces need to be connected if they're to retain their natural values. "Connection" has become a dominant theme in the 1990's. AlAutumn on the Mountain though we are now a little more Schedule Enclosed than half way through the decade, additions to the Riggs Canyon The enclosed Autumn on the Mountain EventSchedsoutheast corridor have been maule is distributed in both The Diablo Review and jor. The 560 acre Musco property, Diablo Watch. Because the two newssletters have south ofSMD's Morgan Ranch addifferent publication dates, some events contained in dition, was added in 1993 with 1988 State Park bond funds and the East the schedule may have already occurred by the time Bay Regional Park District's help. you receive this newsletter. We apologize if you The corridor, instead of remaining missed an event that you would have liked to attend. a corner point, became a wide sweep continued on page 8
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In the summer issue of Diablo Watch, we reported SMD's receipt of the State's first ever Dewitt Award for the highest level of cooperative partnership with the State Department of Parks and Recreation. Since then three SMD directors have won two other awards. On May 15th, Dr. Mary Bowerman and Arthur Bonwell, SMD's founders, received the Nation's oldest and most prestigious conservation award, the Chevron-Times Mirror Magazines Conservation Award. On May 25th, SMD President, Susan Watson, received Contra Costa County's Women of Achievement "Legacy Award For Lifetime Achievement," presented by Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza. Bowerman and Bonwell traveled to Washington D.C. to receive their Chevron-Times Mirror Magazines Conservation Award on May 15th. They were continued on page 9
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