Seth Adams was born in 1962 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina and was raised in Hope Mills, North Carolina. In high school, he moved to Italy and Germany with his family for his father's job. He attended Michigan State University for a year before moving to Berkeley, California in 1981. He attended classes at UC Berkeley and formed the California Water Policy Group before he was hired by Save Mount Diablo in 1988 as its first staff member. Since then, he worked tirelessly for the organization and is now the Land Conservation Director. In this interview, Adams discusses his early life, family, education, travels, move to the Bay Area, interest in the environment, becoming Save Mount Diablo's first staff member, learning from its original six founders, working on real estate acquisitions and fundraising, the organization's partnerships, land stewardship, advocacy, his colleagues, leadership of the organization, and his efforts to expand the Diablo Range into public land.
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Seth Adams: Save Mount Diablo's Land Conservation Director
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Seth Adams, "Seth Adams: Save Mount Diablo's Land Conservation Director" conducted by Shanna Farrell in 2021, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2022. Interview date(s) 2021
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