My year-end gift for Mono Lake

Long Live Mono Lake

Thanks to your support of the Mono Lake Committee, the alarm we’ve been sounding for years—Mono Lake needs more water—is gaining widespread attention:

• Citizens across California are speaking up.
• Civic leaders and prominent environmentalists are calling for action.
• The level of awareness and concern is so high that the Los Angeles Times recently put Mono Lake’s story on its front page and followed that article with three more in the subsequent months.

DWP is maximizing water diversions from tributary streams, without regard for impact on the lake. When the State Water Board holds its hearing on Mono Lake, DWP will make the bogus claim that the low lake is healthy and diversions should continue unchanged. We’ll argue that DWP must be compelled to meet the 31-year-old mandate at long last. There is so much on the line, and your year-end gift makes it all happen! Thank you.

• Prepare for a State Water Board hearing on stream diversions while we explore collaborative solutions with Los Angeles to help the city meet water needs when stream diversions are temporarily adjusted
• Expand our legal, scientific, and public policy teams to make the case for new water diversion rules
• Deploy a temporary electric fence in early 2023 to protect critical California Gull nesting grounds
• Implement major science monitoring projects to maximize restoration of 20 miles of damaged stream habitat
• Support Mono Lake research projects through the Mono Basin Field Station
• Provide a diverse array of education programs, connecting thousands of people to Mono Lake
• Continue to instill conservation values in the next generation
• And more!

Top photo courtesy of Kurt Harrigan.