Benchmark Tufa, 1997. Lake level 6381.7 feet, 35 feet below its prediversion level.

Benchmark Tufa, 1998. Lake level 6384.2 feet. When Mono Lake reaches its management level, these tufa towers will once again protude from the lake's surface. (Now they are 150 feet from the shore)

Channel 10 on Rush Creek, May 1997. The channel was rewatered in late 1995 and planted with trees in the spring of 1996.

Channel 10 in 1998. Planted vegetation is well established, yet a full forest is years away.