On June 25, six science experts on Mono Lake’s California Gulls, Eared Grebes, phalaropes, shorebirds, and waterfowl presented the State Water Board with data and trends they’ve observed in bird populations since the Board’s 1994 decision to raise Mono Lake.…
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’s lake…
Please join us this Sunday, July 19 at 2:00pm at the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore as we welcome author Bonnie Henderson to learn about the life of Nellie Bly Baker O’Bryan in her book, These Are My Mountains, From…
Please join us this Thursday afternoon for a presentation and book signing with local author Robert Marks. Book event with Robert Marks,author of Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin Thursday, July 16 at 4:00pmMono Lake Committee Information Center &…
The following information is the June 22, 2026 press release from the Inyo National Forest. The Inyo National Forest plans to gather 450 wild horses from outside the Montgomery Pass Wild Horse Territory beginning on July 8. These excess wild…
As we embark on a much-needed holiday weekend, I sincerely hope you will join us in celebrating photographer Sarah Attar’s show, “Sierra Study: Observations in the Range of Light,” at a reception in the Mono Lake Committee gallery this upcoming…
Mono Lake’s brine shrimp and alkali fly populations are showing measurable and significant signs of strain due to Mono Lake’s water level being too low for too long. That was the big takeaway from the State Water Board’s Mono Lake…
The Mono Basin community will come together this Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14 to honor the memory of longtime volunteer Janet “JB” Barth, whose dedication to protecting and restoring the Mono Basin left a lasting mark on the landscape and the people who worked…
Over the last three months, students, teachers, and organizers of the Experience Ambientalia program have been busy learning more about Mono Lake, being good stewards of the Eastern Sierra, and expanding the program to more saline, Great Basin lakes. Monthly…
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) has diverted water from the Mono Basin for 85 years, and the impacts to the lake’s ecological health are accumulating. Diversions from Mono Lake’s tributary streams have dramatically reduced the lake’s…
