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Reserve Map
Chronology of historical events
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There is no action on this issue at this time. Material provided for reference only.
Issue History
On February 15, 2000, the Mono County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for legislative action "to move the boundary of the relicted lands from 6417 feet to 6392 feet, which is the management level of Mono Lake implemented by the State Water Resources Control Board..." This action, if implemented, would threaten the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve (see links for more information). Subsequent public outcry against this poorly conceived resolution prompted the Board to reconsider its action. In March, the Board issued a letter that explains the Board’s support for the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve.
After more than a year on the books, the Mono County Board of Supervisors took action in May 2001 to rescind resolution R00-12. In a 4-1 vote, the Board eliminated the former resolution that contained language clearly, though perhaps inadvertently, calling for the elimination of the land base of the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve (MLTSR) – a key piece of the environmental protection puzzle at Mono Lake. Public concern over the impacts of R00-12 and over 2300 letters from members of the Mono Lake Committee raised awareness in the community of the unintended consequences of the resolution. We applaud the Board for taking such decisive action to support an integral component of environmental protection at Mono Lake!
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Click here to read Board's resolution 98-47
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This resolution was passed in 1998 with the same desire to motivate state
officials to negotiate uses of relicted land with local landowners.
Our Perspective
The Mono County Board of Supervisors
We enthusiastically support the Mono Lake State Reserve as an essential protector of the public trust and as a valuable partner in managing visitation at Mono Lake. We support the landowners' desire to use state land when that use is not detrimental to the Reserve and when it is also "historic use." (A key feature of the protections put in place at Mono (the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve and the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area was recognition that historic uses should be able to continue.) We support solving the landowners' use issue through administrative means – that is, pressuring the state to move more quickly to develop use leases – rather than through legislative means.
MLC'S GOAL (Achieved): We want the Mono County Board of Supervisors to withdraw the resolution that is sitting on our legislators' desks in Sacramento.
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