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…
Annual lake level measurement Yesterday staff from the Mono Lake Committee and Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) met at the shore of Mono Lake to cooperatively read the lake level gauge, as is customary at the start…
The Mono Lake webcams have long been a favorite feature of our website—last year they were viewed nearly 50,000 times! Whether it’s to see how much snow fell in Lee Vining after a big storm, to replay a gorgeous summer…
The significance of the State Water Board’s March 17 meeting and receipt of a new climate report on Mono Lake is not lost on the news media. Articles in both the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted…
This week the California State Water Resources Control Board focused on Mono Lake’s low level in a five-hour discussion at their regular meeting in Sacramento. A new Mono Lake report and hydrology model from the UCLA Center for Climate Science…
