Marc Del Piero was a notable commenter at the State Water Board’s March meeting. Del Piero was a State Water Board member at the time of the 1994 Mono Lake decision and served as the hearing officer for the 46…
On a spring evening in early May, Eastern Sierra friends, community members, high school teachers, and local students gathered at Mammoth Mountain’s Parallax Restaurant to celebrate passionate engagement in community and the land, and this year’s Andrea Lawrence Award recipient,…
A report from UCLA released this spring, commissioned by the California State Water Resources Control Board, states that water diversions by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) are the primary reason that Mono Lake is not at…
Winter is in the rearview mirror, and it’s time to start planning your summer in the Eastern Sierra. Reservations are now available for this summer’s Mono Lake canoe tours! Tours happen every weekend from the last week in June to Labor Day weekend. The…
Experience Ambientalia has had a great start to its third year, with students on both sides of the hemisphere—at Mono Lake and Laguna Mar Chiquita, Argentina—participating in coordinated monthly environmental education and stewardship activities and the program’s leadership gathering in…
Nearly 13 years have passed since the Mono Basin Stream Restoration Agreement promised an outlet for the Grant Lake Reservoir Dam to reliably deliver downstream flows to Rush Creek. Today, the wait for a reliable outlet continues. At the end…
Spring has arrived in the Mono Basin, and with it a new art show now adorning the walls of the Mono Lake Committee gallery. In her new show, “Sierra Study: Observations in the Range of Light,” Sarah Attar, an Eastern…
As I write this note for the Mono Lake Newsletter, winter feels like a distant memory. Two weeks into an astonishing heat wave, the aspen trees are leafing out, the desert peach is starting to bloom, and Mono Lake’s tributary…
LA leader’s “commonsense” plan links new local water with healing Mono Lake Last fall the President of the Los Angeles Water & Power Commissioners made headlines in the Los Angeles Times when he proclaimed, “This is a solution with lots…
This post was written by Caelen McQuilkin, Project Specialist, and Teri Tracy, Eastern Sierra Policy Coordinator. Stormwater capture and recycled water projects supply LA but Mono’s only source of water still diverted “Roller coaster” and “whiplash” metaphors have dominated articles…
