Ruth Galanter, Los Angeles city
councilwoman, and Martha Davis,
Executive Director for the Mono
Lake Committee from 1984-1995
attended the September 1994 State
Water Resources Control Board
hearings. Ruth Galanter stated:
“...the impression of a society
correcting a misstep isn’t so wrong
after all. If our complex, flawed,
and multicentric democracy does
not guarantee an outcome like the
one at Mono Lake, it does as least
permit it if the necessary people will
step forward. We are never truly
stuck with our mistakes, even the
ones we think we have cast in stone.
That fact should arouse, in the most
disillusioned mind, a secret stirring
of hope.”

John Hart
Storm Over Mono