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September 1, 2020

Celebrating California Biodiversity Day 2020 at Mono Lake

Natural history

A research drone hangs in the air next to a person holding the drone controls on a bright sunny day at Mono Lake with the lake and mountains in the background.

August 26, 2020

Point Blue Conservation Science highlights a four-decade partnership with the Mono Lake Committee

Science

Two researchers sitting in a boat with one holding a baby Osprey, fish eating hawk, while they look at the band on the bird's leg.

August 24, 2020

Video: Osprey banding at Mono Lake

Science, Videos

View from the road to South Tufa with burned vegetation and black fire scars with Mono Lake in the smokey distance.

August 19, 2020

Firefighters close to containing Mono Lake’s Beach Fire

Travel conditions

A wildfire with red and orange flames and a large plume of dark smoke in a large open expanse of sagebrush along the shore of Mono Lake.

August 17, 2020

Beach Fire ignited by lightning near Mono Lake’s southeast shore

Travel conditions

August 15, 2020

The Mono Lake Story film

Help us to continue the inspirational Mono Lake story—become a member of the Mono Lake Committee today! Mono Lake is a striking blue oasis in eastern California surrounded by desert peaks, volcanoes, and the Sierra Nevada. Scenic tufa tower formations…

Videos

A group of people walk away from the camera down a gravel road through light green and darker green sagebrush. The Sierra Nevadas sit in a cloudy sky.

August 14, 2020

Tioga Inn indecision

Protection

A frame from the youtube video shows yellow and purple flowers and a bird flying with mountains in the distance.

August 11, 2020

Video: Birds & Blossoms in the Bodie Hills

Natural history, Videos

Woman stands at a podium in a hearing room with socially distanced chairs and people sitting at computers with the United States and California flags.

August 4, 2020

Tioga Inn project: Changes get disappointing grades before upcoming hearing

This Thursday, August 6, at 10:00am the Mono County Board of Supervisors will conduct a final hearing on the Tioga Inn project. After a lengthy hearing in June the Board gave the developer and staff direction to bring back significant…

Protection

Person sitting on a boat looking out at Mono Lake in the early morning sun with the mountains in the background.

July 22, 2020

2020 Phalarope surveys begin at Mono Lake

Science