DWP stream diversions will undo this year’s lake level gains unless State Water Board acts The incredibly wet winter of 2023 has us anticipating an exciting 5½-foot rise in Mono Lake’s level by fall. That gain will boost the lake…
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…
Last winter wild horses overwintered along the south shore of Mono Lake throughout South Tufa and Navy Beach. Record winter snow and poconip fog dramatically reduced public access and between 30 and 200 horses lingered in the area until spring.…
The California Gull (Larus californicus), the iconic gull species at Mono Lake and the state bird of Utah, is in trouble. These soaring and gregarious birds have nested in large numbers for millennia at Mono and Great Salt Lake, returning…
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…
This winter has exceeded all expectations in terms of snowfall at Mono Lake. From the Mono Basin’s tallest mountains to the low-lying shores of the lake, the snowpack is deep and persisted through the month of March in an unprecedented…
In remarkable deep snow conditions, Mono Lake Committee staff skied from Lee Vining to the lakeshore this morning, April 1, to read the level of Mono Lake cooperatively with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP). The level…
The deadline to submit your comment letter to the State Water Board on the recent Mono Lake public workshop is fast approaching. Comment letters are due to the State Water Board at 4:00pm PDT on Friday, March 24, 2023. Mono…
Note: This post was originally published as Guest Commentary on CalMatters; it is posted here with permission. In 1994, I stood at a crowded dais in Sacramento where the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Department of Water and…
