From the Editor
California gulls look out over Mono Lake in this issue’s cover photo, taken this year by Arya Degenhardt. It has been a wonderful summer filled with lots of projects. Expanded field studies looked at the gulls this summer and you can read about it on page 8.In fact, there’s lots to review in this issue! Page 3 comments on the CalFed process currently underway, page 4 reviews the status of "improvements" at South Tufa, page 6 discuses the role of large woody debris in restoration, and page 9 reviews a current restoration issue. Then learn more about the Living Lakes partnership on page 10 and enjoy a series of reflective and thoughtful articles on Mono Lake and the Mono Basin in the pages that follow. Then keep reading on for even more news and reports—and the Mono Lake Fall Catalog—in the second half of the Newsletter.
It’s autumn here in the Mono Basin, and thoughts are turning to winter quiet. It’s a wonderful time to visit; be sure to stop by and visit when you’re here.
— Arya Degenhardt and Geoff McQuilkin
This restoration crew made up of Forest Service, Tufa State Reserve, and Mono Lake Committee volunteers planted trees along Lee Vining Creek this summer. 173 pine seedlings were planted in the spring and watered throughout the summer.
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