Save Mount Diablo’s land conservation director Seth Adams was just a few minutes into an interpretive hike of Mangini Ranch Educational Preserve, which the group formally opened on March 30.

About a half-mile down a gravel road from Concord’s Crystyl Ranch development, and the traffic of Ygnacio Valley Road, Adams stopped near a trickling creek to offer perspective on how nature and civilization rarely co-exist as they do around the mountain.

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