Events

September 22, 2023

Protection

Interagency collaboration continues to protect California Gull nesting habitat at Mono Lake

On Saturday, September 16, an intrepid group of Mono Lake Volunteers, Mono Lake Committee staff, and Inyo National Forest employees teamed up to pull invasive weeds on Twain Islet. Twain is key nesting habitat for California Gulls, and in the…

People looking through binoculars in a boat surrounded by smoke.

August 26, 2021

Protection

Pulling weeds at Mono Lake: It’s for the birds

On a recent August morning Mono Lake Committee staff boated out to Twain Islet to hand-pull invasive Bassia weeds to protect critical California Gull nesting habitat at Mono Lake. This was the second season, after a prescribed burn in 2020,…

Wildland firefighters walking across rocky dry brush with flames and smoke rising against the backdrop of Mono Lake and the Sierra Nevada.

February 21, 2020

Protection

A burning solution to the Bassia problem

February 15, 2020

Protection

Prescribed fire on Mono Lake’s islet in the LA Times

Two california gulls standing on top of a tufa mound with a reflective lake in the background.

February 14, 2020

Protection

Interagency collaboration continues to protect California Gull nesting habitat at Mono Lake

Pulling weeds at Mono Lake: It’s for the birds

A burning solution to the Bassia problem

Prescribed fire on Mono Lake’s islet in the LA Times

Smoke signals good news for Mono Lake’s California Gulls