Elusive badger sighting on Mount Diablo delights environmentalists

Kathy Cutting was still learning about wildlife on and around Mount Diablo when, in early September, she checked the images captured on her trap camera set up in the foothills east of Concord and saw something quite unexpected.

It was an American badger, sightings of which have been reported near the mountain only a handful of times since the 1970s, and never captured on film or electronic video until now.