Please join us at the Mono Lake Committee in premiering our new gallery show, Flora of the Sierra Nevada: Botanical Watercolors & Hand-Painted Silks, with a reception on Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 4:00 to 6:00pm. Linda Ann Vorobik, PhD…
The battle to restore the fishery of Walker Lake, Nevada suffered a tragic blow earlier this year with the passing of lead attorney Simeon Herskovits, known throughout the Southwest as “Our Water Warrior.” Before taking on the Walker Lake issue,…
What a joy to read, this New York Times article out June 27, 2025, which taps into the often-unexpected truth we here at Mono Lake love to tell visitors when we talk about Los Angeles’s water use. Yes, LA was…
Water that should be flowing to Mono Lake began leaving the Mono Basin and flowing instead toward Los Angeles on June 17 when the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) began exporting stream diversions into the Los Angeles…
Each spring the Mono Lake Committee’s team of Mono Basin modelers and hydrology experts uses the lake level on April 1 together with the Mono Basin snowpack numbers and similar-year hydrological statistical data to produce the Mono Lake Committee lake…
Update: Your calls made an impact! On June 24, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the provision to sell off millions of acres of public land in the budget reconciliation bill must be taken out. Thank you Mono Lake Committee members…
Mono Basin and Eastern Sierra’s vast public lands lose federal employees and essential services Earlier this year the Trump Administration slashed staffing of federal agencies, including those that manage federal lands around the country and in California and the Eastern…
Continuing DWP water diversions and decades of low lake levels causing harm For centuries California Gulls have migrated east across the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada to nest at Mono Lake. Their graceful, raucous, and quirky presence is a distinct…
In March, the Mono Lake community lost Harrison “Hap” C. Dunning—a renowned legal scholar and professor, steadfast advocate of the Public Trust, and insightful thinker who sought a balanced and sustainable approach to water rights law. Starting in the 1970s,…
Boardwalk removal volunteer days The Mono Lake Committee in partnership with California State Parks is organizing a three-day volunteer effort (July 16-18) to remove the burned and damaged State Reserve Boardwalk at the Mono Lake County Park to help expedite…
