On November 7, 2023, the Inyo National Forest and Bishop Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a 30-day public scoping period for a proposed project to gather wild horses that have expanded beyond the Montgomery Pass Wild…
Phillip L. Isenberg, an inventive and unconventional Sacramento political leader, and champion of Mono Lake has died. Around Sacramento, and much of the state, he was known for his impressive legacy of public service—as City Council Member, Assemblyman, Sacramento Mayor, and…
New deadline: November 21, 2023 The Mono Lake Committee invites you to submit photographs for the 2025 Mono Lake Calendar—we are seeking photographs of the highest caliber that capture the spirit and reflect the unique qualities of Mono Lake, its tributary…
After digging out from under the exceptionally snowy winter, Mono Lake Committee staff were exceptionally curious—how much would Mono Lake rise this year, and will the rise stick this time? As it turns out, many people are wondering the same…
“Today, my friends, we’ve done the right thing. Today, we saved Mono Lake.”—Marc Del Piero, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, September 28, 1994 On September 28, 1994, the California State Water Resources Control Board issued Decision 1631,…
There’s a new in-depth article out that highlights the essential questions many people are asking right now—about Mono Lake’s low level, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power diversions, State Water Board action, the Mono Lake Committee’s campaign to raise…
Each spring the Mono Lake Committee’s team of Mono Basin modelers and hydrology experts uses the lake level on April 1 together with the Mono Basin snowpack numbers and similar-year hydrological statistical data to produce the Mono Lake Committee lake…
The sight of phalaropes flocking at Mono Lake is truly something to behold. Inspired by both the phalaropes as well as the coordinated international efforts to protect their saline lake habitats in North and South America—we have hatched a plan…
Tom Soto, of the Mono Lake Committee Board of Directors, would be the first one to tell you that we have protections in place for Mono Lake today thanks to the individual efforts of many, many people, for many, many…
Last fall, a flock of phalarope enthusiasts traveled 3,000 miles from Mono Lake to the Wilson’s Phalarope’s southernmost migration point—Laguna Mar Chiquita. That’s how six Mono Lake Committee staff, one Board member, and several long-time Mono Lake advocates from California…
