In a letter sent this week, a broad statewide coalition of over 50 organizations called on the State Water Board to hold a hearing and take prompt action to pause water diversions until the lake reaches its mandated 6392-foot healthy…
This week, the online news outlet SFGate released an extensive article on Mono Lake. The article, by Mountain Town News Editor Julie Brown Davis, begins with the 1976 Mono Lake research group and deftly connects the dots right up to…
Volume of DWP diversions equivalent to Mono Lake’s drop over the last 12 months Los Angeles has multiple sources of water, with some local sources funded specifically to offset Mono Basin diversions. Mono Lake, on the other hand, has no…
All eyes turn to regulator action to fix low lake problem As the end of the year approaches, so does the formal launch of the long-anticipated California State Water Resources Control Board Mono Lake hearing process. Expected to take nine…
With the Los Angeles mayoral candidate’s race between Karen Bass (incumbent) and Nithya Raman running at full tilt, Angelenos are asking important questions on a wide range of topics, including Mono Lake. In letters to both candidates, a coalition of…
Editor’s note: The following op-ed was written by University of Southern California Professor of Law, Erin Ryan, and ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 9. Mono Lake still needs saving. Here’s what should happen next: The California State…
On June 25, six science experts on Mono Lake’s California Gulls, Eared Grebes, phalaropes, shorebirds, and waterfowl presented the State Water Board with data and trends they’ve observed in bird populations since the Board’s 1994 decision to raise Mono Lake.…
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’s lake…
Mono Lake’s brine shrimp and alkali fly populations are showing measurable and significant signs of strain due to Mono Lake’s water level being too low for too long. That was the big takeaway from the State Water Board’s Mono Lake…
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) has diverted water from the Mono Basin for 85 years, and the impacts to the lake’s ecological health are accumulating. Diversions from Mono Lake’s tributary streams have dramatically reduced the lake’s…
