It’s weather whiplash for California as people grapple with the staggering effects of atmospheric rivers on the heels of a severe multi-year drought. One thing, however, remains the same: Mono Lake desperately needs to rise 13 vertical feet to the…
For decades, wild horses from the Montgomery Pass Herd, located more than 20 miles east of Lee Vining, roamed far from the shoreline habitat of Mono Lake, but that has recently been changing. A new article in the San Francisco…
You might remember hearing the Mono Lake story on NPR’s Blue Dot Podcast in May of 2021. Host Dave Schlom chatted with Nora Livingston, our Lead Naturalist Guide, about the geology, ecosystems, and organisms of Mono Lake, and later with…
Readers in the San Francisco Bay Area opened the San Francisco Chronicle this morning to see a feature article about Mono Lake and the challenges the present-day, persistent low lake level presents for humans, birds, and the environment alike, challenges…