It’s weather whiplash for California as people grapple with the staggering effects of atmospheric rivers on the heels of a severe multi-year drought. One thing, however, remains the same: Mono Lake desperately needs to rise 13 vertical feet to the…
The Mono Lake Committee’s 2022 Annual Report is now available online! The report is full of photos of 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 2021, our ecological…
Your support enables everything we do to get Mono Lake to rise, keep its tributary streams flowing, and ensure that its surrounding lands are protected. Thank you for being a part of protecting this special place. As we near the…
For decades, wild horses from the Montgomery Pass Herd, located more than 20 miles east of Lee Vining, roamed far from the shoreline habitat of Mono Lake, but that has recently been changing. A new article in the San Francisco…
September 28, 2022, marks the 28th anniversary of the State Water Resource Control Board’s Decision 1631, which set forth requirements for the sustainable protection of Mono Lake and its tributary streams and wetlands for future generations. Decision 1631 is widely…
As an unassuming email landed in our inboxes from clothing company Patagonia about the company’s next step to “save our home planet,” phones buzzed with the news alert, office-mates shared the link, and the outlook for planet Earth made a…
The Mono Lake Committee invites you to submit photographs for the 2024 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 streams, the high country, and…
If you know, you know. If you don’t, you should join us for Trail Chic 2022! When: Friday, July 22 at 7:30pmWhere: Lee Vining Community CenterWhat: An astroturf runway, the latest in trail fashion, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly (for a donation), trail…
On Thursday, June 16, 2022 from 8:30am–12:30pm at the Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor Center there will be a series of presentations about some of the cutting-edge geobiology research being conducted at Mono Lake by the International Geobiology Course. There…
Last winter, wild horse activity sharply increased at and around South Tufa, with upward of 100 horses regularly seen on the trail to Mono Lake, near Navy Beach, and at the freshwater spring along the shoreline. Wild horses used to…
