Solutions at hand to modernize LA Aqueduct & heal streams … will DWP choose the win-win path?
May 22, 2013
The Los Angeles Aqueduct is a fixture in the Mono Basin, and few here can remember a time before it existed. Today it remains at the center of issues with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP), especially as the three-year anniversary approaches of the effort to implement restoration streamflows that will heal [...]
Coming soon: The 12th annual Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua
May 22, 2013
On June 14–16 the Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua will land in the Eastern Sierra for the 12th consecutive year, bringing with it a record number of participants. Many of the more than 80 field trips, workshops, and presentations still have available space. Trees, wildflowers, bugs and butterflies, writing, sketching birds, poetry, storytelling, photography and image [...]
Spring & Summer 2013 Mono Lake Newsletter available online
May 15, 2013
I hope you get to visit Mono Lake this summer. I hope you walk through the sagebrush down to the shoreline to say hello to the alkali flies. I hope you get to see a sunset, or a sunrise, or the march of puffy clouds across the quiet sky. I hope you fish one of [...]
Construction in Lee Vining; businesses are open
May 15, 2013
Have you visited Lee Vining lately? If so, you may have noticed construction equipment and torn up roads. In addition to the Digital 395 installation that is happening in Lee Vining, the Mono County Department of Public Works is rehabilitating the streets of Lee Vining from now through early August of this year. According to [...]
