From Save Mount Diablo:
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fire-drought-rain-and-hope-film-premiere-tickets-827529281357
Join us for the premiere of the first ever full-length film about the Diablo Range, by Joan Hamilton and Seth Adams.
Please join Save Mount Diablo in the world premiere of Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range—the first full-length movie ever created about the mysterious, little-known 200-mile Diablo Range, California’s next great conservation story. It’s the culmination of three years of groundbreaking work exploring the range.
DATE: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
TIME: 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Opening speaker starts at 5:15 PM - Film starts at 5:30 PM - Q&A panel after the film
LOCATION: Lafayette Veterans Memorial Center
3780 Mount Diablo Blvd.
Lafayette, CA
Refreshments will be served in a reception before and afterward.
Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope: Three Wild Years in the Diablo Range is part of our Diablo Range Revealed program, sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.
With the help of ranchers, naturalists, scientists, and land managers, Fire, Drought, Rain, and Hope explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love, including:
• Morgan Territory, where the fire hit closest to home—and rare plants bounced back by the millions on incinerated slopes.
• Corral Hollow, where a fifth-generation ranching family survived the fire and helped establish a new state-park unit.
• Ohlone Wilderness, where wildlife biologist Amanda Murphy studies rattlesnakes, Alameda whipsnakes, and whiptail lizards living in a vast open space on the urban edge.
• Máyyan ‘Ooyákma—Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve, where activist-ecologist Stuart Weiss and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority have helped make the city of San Jose safer.
• Henry W. Coe State Park, where the fire made resource managers’ jobs easier in an expanse of wild country four times the size of Mount Diablo State Park.
• Pinnacles National Park and beyond, where author and conservation biologist Joseph Belli “babysits” condors as a volunteer for the National Park Service and teams up with soulmate Seth Adams of Save Mount Diablo to survey wildlife in the range.
• Del Puerto Canyon and Mount Hamilton, where experts in insects, eagles, and other wildlife cross the Diablo Range together on a soggy spring day in 2023.
The film also shows you how to explore these places yourself. The last part, ”Hope: and Audacious Plans,” maps out Save Mount Diablo’s strategies for winning broader protection for the entire range in this era of climate change.
The 88-minute film is the brainchild of longtime Save Mount Diablo staffer Seth Adams, and includes interviews with Doug Bell, Sean Burke, Ted Clement, Mark Connolly, Celeste Garamendi, Scott Hein, Andrea Mackenzie, and Kip Will among others. It showcases the photography of Scott Hein and Cooper Ogden. Writing, production, and narration are by Joan Hamilton.
Please register soon as space is limited. We can't wait to celebrate with you!
Contact Shannon Grover with questions at sgrover@savemountdiablo.org or call 925-951-0306.