Fall 2026 Mono Lake Newsletter
A note from the editor: Do you remember setting up dominoes to knock over when you were a kid? It seemed to take forever, requiring concentration to line them up, to not bump the table, to watch for an errant…
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State Water Board hearing launch at hand
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…
Motus operandi: Migration monitoring at Mono Lake
2026 was the Mono Lake Committee’s fourth year managing Motus wildlife tracking stations at Mono Lake. The Committee’s three stations have helped detect and track the movements of 15 Red-necked Phalaropes and five Wilson’s Phalaropes tagged at Mono Lake. Additionally,…
Continuing DWP diversions threaten Mono Lake’s biodiversity
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…
Summer 2026 Mono Lake Newsletter
A note from the editor: This issue of the Mono Lake Newsletter feels to me like the whole Mono Lake story distilled into one publication. It’s a familiar story to anyone who knows Mono Lake. It starts with the lake…
Winter & Spring 2026 Mono Lake Newsletter
As I write this note for the Mono Lake Newsletter, winter feels like a distant memory. Two weeks into an astonishing heat wave, the aspen trees are leafing out, the desert peach is starting to bloom, and Mono Lake’s tributary…
New water source could allow LA to pause Mono Basin diversions
LA leader’s “commonsense” plan links new local water with healing Mono Lake Last fall the President of the Los Angeles Water & Power Commissioners made headlines in the Los Angeles Times when he proclaimed, “This is a solution with lots…
DWP diverts despite strong local supply
This post was written by Caelen McQuilkin, Project Specialist, and Teri Tracy, Eastern Sierra Policy Coordinator. Stormwater capture and recycled water projects supply LA but Mono’s only source of water still diverted “Roller coaster” and “whiplash” metaphors have dominated articles…
Time to get tough and finish the Right Thing
This essay, written by Marc Del Piero, appears in the 2026 Mono Lake Calendar. “The price for the protection of water rights is vigilance.” —Attributed to Henry Miller of the Miller-Lux Ranch Now is the time that all residents of…
Fall 2025 Mono Lake Newsletter
Working on this Mono Lake Newsletter, it struck me how many complex, technologically advanced systems are part of the articles that make up this issue. Air quality monitors, Motus stations, water treatment and recycling. Easements and grants for property transfer.…