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Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

August 30, 2012

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A Mono Basin summer: Foam, phalaropes, and fish

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The latest issue of the Mono Lake Newsletter is no

The latest issue of the Mono Lake Newsletter is now online! DWP recently went back on Los Angeles' decision to not take the maximum amount of water from the Mono Basin this year. In this issue we explain how that action has accelerated the State Water Board's plans to hold its long-awaited hearing about how to get Mono Lake to rise. Read more at monolake.org/newsletter. 📷 by Geoff McQuilkin

Did you see the news about the Mount Lyell shrew?

Did you see the news about the Mount Lyell shrew? Despite being identified by science more than 100 years ago, the Mount Lyell shrew (Sorex lyelli) was photographed alive for the first time last November. It lives right here in the Mono Basin! Read more about it at monolake.org/shrew. 📷 courtesy of Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes

This recent CalMatters article shines a spotlight

This recent CalMatters article shines a spotlight on the current #MonoLake water export situation and does a deep dive into what it means for both Mono Lake and Los Angeles. Read it at monolake.org/calmatters. 📷 Sierra Farquhar for CalMatters

A warm and rainy start to February has washed lots

A warm and rainy start to February has washed lots of our snow away at #MonoLake, but at least it brought beautiful rainbows last weekend! We're hoping that the snow will return with the storms that are forecast for the rest of this week. 📷 Andrew Youssef

Sally Gaines, our Board Chair, wrote about how the

Sally Gaines, our Board Chair, wrote about how the front of the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore has changed over the years. Did you know? The building was originally a dance hall where workers building the Los Angeles Aqueduct came to socialize. From its pink iteration in 1979 to today, there have been lots of changes! Read Sally’s post at monolake.org/storefront. 📷 Mono Lake Committee archive photos

It's snowing! After a mostly dry January, today we

It's snowing! After a mostly dry January, today we are happy to see several inches of snow at Mono Lake all the way down to the shore, and it's still coming down.

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