This summer, we are launching a new text messaging program, giving you a new way to stay up to date with Mono Lake. This program will consist of about 1-2 messages per month and include opportunities for you to take…
Like we did last year, yesterday my husband and I ventured up Highway 120 West on bikes and skis to check out the snow conditions at Tioga Pass. Caltrans has plowed the road clear of snow all the way up…
We’ve finally made it to mid-April, the typical start of the Highway 120 West, or Tioga Pass road, plowing season. With that in mind, it’s time to start training for the 44th annual Tioga Pass Run! Participants of the Tioga…
Reservations are now available for this summer’s Mono Lake canoe tours. Tours happen every weekend from mid-June through August and include Labor Day this year, Monday, September 1. Canoe tours are a wonderful way to experience Mono Lake. Glide through…
A few weeks ago, Lee Vining students participating in the Experience Ambientalia program celebrated World Planting Day. In partnership with the Mono Lake Committee, local high school teachers, and the sustainable landscape design firm Watershed Progressive, the students planted native…
Current DWP water export: 3,590,882,743 gallons 11,020 acre-feet The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) continued to export water from the Mono Basin as of this morning. The diversion of water away from Mono Lake has been continuous…
We hope you’ll join us for our annual celebration of fellow community members who embody the Andrea Lawrence Award spirit of passionate engagement in community and the land. This year we will honor Martha Guzman in recognition of her pivotal…
Each year the Mono Lake Committee supports local students with plans to attend college or other vocational training within a year of graduation who display a personal connection with Mono Lake and the Mono Lake story. We award two Mono…
New art has filled the Mono Lake Committee gallery in a show called Confluence: Etchings & Paintings of the Sierra, which will be on display through July. Serenity fills the space between Erika Perloff’s plein air pastel paintings of Eastern…
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) continues to develop a multi-phased project focusing on Grant Lake Reservoir infrastructure. The project includes the long-overdue modification to the Grant spillway needed to provide the required Stream Ecosystem Flows (SEFs)…
