Save Mount Diablo buys Ginochio Schwendel Ranch to protect key wildlife corridor

The nonprofit conservation group Save Mount Diablo has bought the Ginochio Schwendel Ranch, a 98-acre property along the Marsh Creek wildlife corridor between Clayton and Brentwood. 

The announcement came Thursday, just over a week after the California Wildlife Conservation Board provided a $728,000 grant toward the acquisition project, covering about half of the $1.455 million total cost.