Green grass with fluffy seed heads lines the shore of a lake, tufa formations are in the water offshore.

Tag: Mono Lake in the news

Mono Lake on PBS Nature

Today PBS Nature featured Mono Lake as part of their Untold Earth video series, which explores our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. Mono Lake certainly fits that description! The nine-minute segment was filmed this summer, showing flocking phalaropes, remnants…

Letters to the editor: Los Angeles Times opinion piece

Today the Los Angeles Times published two letters in response to the opinion piece by Bruce Resnik of a few days ago. We love the headline: “L.A. doesn’t need Mono Lake’s water—but Mono Lake desperately does.” Thank you to Thomas…

Los Angeles Times opinion piece on Mono Lake

This morning the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece entitled “A wet winter began to replenish Mono Lake. L.A. should let it be a lake again.” The opinion writer, Bruce Reznik, is the executive director of Los Angeles Waterkeeper;…

LA Times article highlights familiar DWP tactics

Today’s LA Times article describes the latest chapter in the drawn-out tussle between air quality regulators and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) in the Owens Valley. DWP was recently fined by the Great Basin Unified Air…

Inside Climate News covers Mono Lake

Mono Lake is featured this week at Inside Climate News—reporter Bob Berwyn covers the hard-won limits on Los Angeles’ stream diversions that protect the lake and the persistent work needed to keep restoration work moving forward. Rather than sweeping policy…

News from the Great Salt Lake Collaborative

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…