20th Anniversary Stories
In our Winter 1998 Mono Lake Newsletter, we asked you to send us your stories of Mono Lake and the Mono Lake Committee. The following stories have been received so far:
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From: "Sue O'Connell"
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 1998 7:56 PM
To: stories@monolake.org
Subject: Mono Lake storyI first came to Mono Lake in the summer of 1980, as a reporter for the issues center section of National Wildlife magazine. My visit coincided with the bicyclists arriving from their trek carrying water from the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power fountain. David Gaines graciously invited my husband and me to his house for dinner -- I remember it was the first time I'd eaten lentils, my husband remembers some great chile reillinos.
Soon after that, David came to Washington, DC, to testify at a Congressional hearing. We gave him an upstairs bedroom in our house in suburban Maryland. However, during the night, he went out in the back yard and slept on the chaise lounge!
Happy 20th anniversary, Mono Lake Committee!
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From: "Hiro Satoh"
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 4:05 AM
To: stories@monolake.org
Subject: May memories of the Mono LakeI'm writing this story in Tokyo, Japan about 5000 miles far from the Mono Lake. I cannot stop telling something about the Mono Lake. It's so impressive. I made just two visits to the lake, once on 1993 and then on 1996. The first visit made me surprised just by vastness and beauty with an opportunity of learning its history and about the Eastern Sierra. Deeper understanding and my emotion that we must help the Mono Lake were developed after the trip. Also such knowledge made me understand seriousness of environmental issues throughout the world that was inspired by it. Particularly the water diversion to the Los Angeles was the most serious and unsolved issue is really sorry. The standing alone Tufa is the real monument which educated me how we were stupid at the time of the construction of aqueduct without knowing delicateness of the mother nature. The visits helped me start learning environmental issues inluding water and the ocean. It is the time we must chage our lives from energy consuming culture to a new life style using renewable resources. In other year I visited the arctic region, the northernmost point of the US, and the nature there was telling the same.
Save Mono Lake! Only it can save our lives.
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