Last month, Mono County high school seniors celebrated graduation throughout the Eastern Sierra. The Mono Lake Committee awarded $1,000 scholarships to two very deserving seniors: Esha Eilts from Lee Vining High School and Kelly Thompson from Coleville High School. Along with submitting…
This spring ushered another new batch of freshly trained participants into the ranks of the Mono Lake Volunteers. The Mono Basin community has long recognized the program’s essential work welcoming and educating visitors to this unique and beautiful area. This…
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…
Today we are launching a special, one-day fundraiser to raise $5,000 for the Mono Basin Outdoor Education Center (OEC). Can you help us reach our goal with your gift of $25, $50, $100 or more today? This fundraiser commemorates the…
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…
This essay, written by mark! Lopez, appears in the 2023 Mono Lake Calendar. My first memory of Mono Lake, like many of my first memories, connects to my grandparents Juana and Ricardo Gutierrez, Co-Founders of the Madres del Este de Los…
The faucets are open above California these days, which here at Mono Lake has resulted in 64 inches of new snow since the new year began! This is great news for Mono Lake and for some relief from the drought…
In early August the Mono Lake Committee hosted four journalists from Utah who were here in the Eastern Sierra as part of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the Great…
On July 28, 2022 the United States District Court in Reno, Nevada agreed to a Walker Lake Working Group (WLWG) motion to allow legal service by publication. This brings to near completion a 30-year effort to legally notify all Walker…
Time and time again you hear people talking about Mono Lake and the surrounding basin as a weird and otherworldly environment, but how is it seen from a true outside perspective? My name is Amelia, I am a seasonal intern…
