Bright and early on Sunday, September 8, athletes toed the start line of the 43rd annual Tioga Pass Run. The energy and excitement were palpable as walkers and runners began their 12.4 mile ascent from the Mono Lake Committee in…
Summer afternoons in the Rush Creek bottomlands can be damp and oppressive. My fieldwork partner and I stumble down a dry streambed as mosquitos hum in our ears and birds flit in the blue shadows of the young willows. In…
Forty years ago, in 1984, Congress established the first Scenic Area designation in the country—the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area. Later this month we’ll be celebrating these important four decades of protection for Mono Lake and the Mono Basin!…
As summer stretches into the cooler nights of fall, we are celebrating the changing of the season with a fresh gallery show at the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore. The new show, titled A Shared Planet, features the…
Every summer, the Mono Lake Committee hires interns who work in interpretation, education, science, information, and more, while living in Lee Vining for the months they work here. Many permanent staff at the Committee today will tell you how they…
Experience Ambientalia was started around Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina as a way to educate the youth there about the issues that face their beautiful lake and to give them the knowledge and skills they need to create real solutions…
When the program began, Experience Ambientalia was to get the local youth involved with environmental issues and raise awareness of the importance of Mono Lake to migratory birds. Now it has allowed students to connect more deeply with Mono Lake…
The past two weeks have been full of exciting thunderstorms, giving us Mono Basin residents a generous helping of precipitation, lightning, and rainbows. Unfortunately, the storms also bring with them greater risk to those recreating in the open spaces of the…
After a successful exchange in the Mono Basin between youth from Laguna Mar Chiquita and Mono Lake, the Experience Ambientalia international exchange continued as the students from Mono Lake traveled to Laguna Mar Chiquita to reconnect with their peers in…
Thirty years ago Madres del Este de Los Angeles Santa Isabel (MELASI), an environmental and social justice group participating in a city-sponsored ultra-low-flush toilet distribution program, made the 350-mile journey north to join the Mono Lake Committee in seeing the…
