This Giving Tuesday at Mono Lake comes with a special opportunity: All gifts will be matched dollar for dollar, until we reach $75,000. Thanks to our friend Joan, a longtime member, has challenged us all with a very generous match.…
The Mono Lake Committee’s 2025 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 2024, the Mono Lake Volunteer roster,…
On Tuesday, November 11, Eastern Sierra students from two counties participated in the Experience Ambientalia program for World Fisheries Day. In partnership with the Mono Lake Committee, local high school teachers, Beaver’s Sporting Goods, the California Department of Fish and…
If you like the holidays, birds, and know how to count, then the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is for you! The 2025 CBC marks the 126th year that the National Audubon Society has organized this international community science event. Every…
Thanks to a partnership between the Mono Lake Committee, our colleagues at Laguna Mar Chiquita in northern Argentina, and Eastern Sierra high school educators, local high school students and teachers are participating in the third edition of Experience Ambientalia. In…
The Los Angeles Times reports today on a significant step for LA’s water resilience and security that will also allow the city to stop taking water from Mono Lake’s tributary streams. In the article, “Los Angeles will nearly double recycled…
Action Alert: Support the Los Angeles–Mono Lake replenishment water plan now The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners just approved a major water recycling and groundwater replenishment expansion. They stated that this new, affordable water supply enables LADWP…
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power doubles down on lowering Mono Lake News headlines shined spotlights on Mono Lake this summer. On the front page of the Los Angeles Times “‘It needs more water’: Calls grow for…
Working on this Mono Lake Newsletter, it struck me how many complex, technologically advanced systems are part of the articles that make up this issue. Air quality monitors, Motus stations, water treatment and recycling. Easements and grants for property transfer.…
The Mono Lake Committee’s decades-long effort to secure new local recycled water for Los Angeles, and effectively replace stream diversions from Mono Lake, may be on the precipice of finally being realized. The story begins in the 1980s when the…
