From all of us at the Mono Lake Committee, we hope this winter solstice brings you peace, warmth, and the promise of bright days ahead. Member support enables everything we do to ensure Mono Lake will rise, that its tributary…
Editor’s note: This article was published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Desert Report. A second hearing with the California Water Board approaches Standing at the shore of Mono Lake and looking out across the rippling water, you are…
Thanks to the support of more than 430 members and supporters, we achieved our goal of raising $60,000 to be matched for Mono Lake! Together, we raised more than $130,000 to protect Mono Lake, restore its tributary streams, educate the…
On Sunday, November 17, Eastern Sierra students participating in the Experience Ambientalia program got out and about for World Fisheries Day. In partnership with the Mono Lake Committee, local high school teachers, Beaver’s Sporting Goods, and our colleagues at Laguna Mar…
If you like the holidays, birds, and know how to count, then the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is for you! The 2024 CBC marks the 125th year that the National Audubon Society has organized this international community science event. Every…
Mono Basin water exports by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) reached—and then exceeded—the 4,500 acre-foot level this week, a surprise given Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s decision to hold exports at the same 4,500 acre-foot level…
It’s almost Giving Tuesday at Mono Lake, which comes with a special opportunity: All gifts made through Tuesday, December 3, will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $60,000, thanks to our friend Joan, a longtime member, who is back…
The Mono Lake Committee’s 2024 Annual Report is now available! The report shows the Mono Lake Committee in action in our focus areas of protection, restoration, education, and scientific research. It also has the Committee’s audited financial information for 2023, list of Mono Lake Volunteers,…
Rush Creek restoration continues to be delayed as construction of the long-awaited modification to Grant Lake Reservoir is complicated by the replacement of the 88-year-old broken rotovalve buried 80 feet below the edge of the reservoir within the aqueduct intake…
Earlier this month, the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribal Council established one official spelling for the Tribe’s name: Kootzaduka’a. This spelling better represents the word’s pronunciation in the Kootzaduka’a language. The phonetic spelling is more accurate to the sounds in the…
