Aging Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) infrastructure is further delaying the construction of the long-awaited modification to Grant Lake Reservoir necessary to reliably deliver the high flows needed to restore Rush Creek. Moving water around Grant Dam…
Alkali fly (Ephydra hians) productivity at Mono Lake is a valuable indicator for understanding Mono Lake’s ecosystem health. With a life cycle that occurs almost entirely within Mono Lake’s saline waters and a diet of lake algae, alkali flies and…
If you visit Mono Lake this summer I know you’ll be captivated by its beauty—a huge blue lake in the desert, with tufa towers like castles along the shore and tall snowcapped mountains rising to the west. If you picked…
Throughout the year the Mono Lake Committee is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the decision that established the mandate to protect Mono Lake at the 6,392 foot elevation level—the Public Trust lake level. Decision 1631 was issued by the California…
Mono Lake Committee and diverse LA coalition call on Mayor Bass to not increase water exports this year Last year was notably wet, raising Mono Lake five feet—and creating a conundrum. Under rules written three decades ago, the lake’s rise…
Nora starts her article on page 20 with the classic John Steinbeck quote: “…it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry…
In the spring, the Mono Lake Committee helped Mono County secure emergency funding from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for Airborne Snow Observatories (ASO) LiDAR flights that gave us a crucial understanding of the record snowpack. ASO-derived data and…
Editor’s note: This article was compiled from field reports from Ryan Carle and Kiki Tarr. Phalarope research continued at Mono Lake again this summer, with phalarope surveys taking place for the fifth consecutive year, plus a new effort to tag…
Spillway upgrade construction tentatively planned for next spring One of the few dams without an outlet in the state of California is soon to get one—modification of the Grant Lake Reservoir dam may begin as early as next spring. The…
The Mono Basin has had a very wet runoff year (more than 200% of average), but from a stream restoration perspective, what matters is how quickly the runoff melts, because the resulting flows dictate what kind of ecosystem processes occur.…
