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Audible Mount Diablo

Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Photographs pop up to help identify plants and animals. Perfect to prepare for your first--or your hundredth--trip up the mountain. 
 
Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Mount Diablo Interpretive AssociationProduced by Audio Guides to the Outdoors
 
Photo above by Scott Hein

Dec 5, 2025

When you spot a raptor flying high in the Bay Area sky--dark, perhaps wobbling a little—chances are good that it's a turkey vulture. In this short video, learn about some of the species' special skills, underestimated grace, and (ugh) disgusting habits.
 
A MOUNT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION video featuring KEN...


Oct 11, 2025

Take a peek at Bay Area wildlife when they think no one is watching, as they share one of the few seasonal watering holes remaining in the area. Production, images, writing and narration by Wally De Young. Music by Chris Haugen. Sponsored by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount...


Apr 26, 2025

Learn all about Mount Diablo's often-breezed-by tall plants: its pines and its chaparral. The latter covers only 3 percent of the earth's land mass and yet holds 20 percent of its biodiversity.

This is episode seven in "Falls Trail," a 13-part series featuring Ken Lavin, Burt Bogardus, Paul Cardinet, and Jenn Roe....


Jun 14, 2024

In this final episode, Save Mount Diablo unfolds an audacious plan for winning broader protection for the Diablo Range in an era of climate change.

The "Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope" series explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for...


Jun 7, 2024

CONDOR COUNTRY 

In Pinnacles National Park, author and conservation biologist Joseph Belli “babysits” condors as a volunteer for the National Park Service. In this episode he teams up with soulmate Seth Adams of Save Mount Diablo to survey wildlife in the park and beyond.  

The "Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope" series...