Walker Lake in Nevada is a sister lake to Mono Lake—another Great Basin lake with no outlet and competing interests for water that have left the lake far too low and unhealthy. This short video outlines a groundbreaking land repurposing…
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…
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.…
Today is Mono Lake Day, the anniversary of the California State Water Resources Control Board’s decision mandating that Mono Lake be protected at a healthy level of 6,392 feet above sea level. The State Water Board set the mandated level…
Fall color season is underway in the Eastern Sierra! Here in the Mono Basin the aspens, cottonwoods, and willows are still mostly green with patches of gold and orange. Sagehen Summit is the star of the show so far, glowing…
Ten years after the initial Walking Water event, this year’s Lake to Lake Walk will once again connect Mono Lake and Owens Lake during a three-week-long walk between the two locations. The walk will begin at Mono Lake on Labor…
Water that should be flowing to Mono Lake began leaving the Mono Basin and flowing instead toward Los Angeles on June 17 when the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) began exporting stream diversions into the Los Angeles…
The Inn Fire near Mono Lake is now 70% contained at 728 acres in size thanks to the diligent efforts of more than 500 fire personnel who responded quickly after it ignited last Thursday, May 22 at 3:30pm. The cause…
I am noticing California Gulls differently this year. Their raucous calls are a sound of summer that always makes me smile. I love their bold manners and handsome white-and-gray plumage that gets messy as they forage for food until they…
Like we did last year, yesterday my husband and I ventured up Highway 120 West on bikes and skis to check out the snow conditions at Tioga Pass. Caltrans has plowed the road clear of snow all the way up…
