2. Restoration stream studies on Rush Creek

In 2008 California State Water Board-appointed scientists studied Rush Creek, Mono Lake’s largest tributary stream, at multiple levels of flow, including the lowest flow seen in over a decade. The art and science of regulating flow regimes is central to the restoration process on Mono’s streams, and the Committee is dedicated to assuring that the best scientific information is used in formulating long term management plans.

The information gathered in the study will inform decisions about the timing and intensity of flows in the years ahead-all part of the “adaptive management” approach in the Mono Basin that uses real world results to modify management actions.

In honor of achievements made in the ongoing effort to return Mono Basin streams to health, we give the number two spot in the Mono Lake Top Ten for 2008 to the restoration stream studies on Rush Creek.

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The Mono Lake Top Ten from 2008

2. Restoration stream studies on Rush Creek
3. The launch of the new Mono Lake Website
4. The Los Angeles Water Plan
5. The ecosystem marches on
6. Mono Lake Committee members paid the entire mortgage on the Committee’s Mono Basin Field Station and Annex properties
7. The Mono Lake Trail and David Gaines Boardwalk project
8. The Committee’s Outdoor Experiences Program turns 15
9. Mono Lake travels across the country with the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibit: H₂0 = Life.
10. The Mono Lake Committee turns 30

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