Hey, summer is here. Let’s go camping in the desert! Certainly, this conjures up visions of hot temperatures? Not so, desert dwellers! Lori and Russ have lived in Apple Valley for 26 years and have ...

Thank you for the stories on the rebirth of California’s endangered wetlands. I am blessed to have seen Mono Lake the way it used to be before Los Angeles began to take its water. In 1926, when I was ...

Mono Lake is just east of the Sierra Nevada Range near the small town of Lee Vining, California, the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. Seeing it is a uniquely Western experience, and summer ...

The canoe glided in the salty water of Mono Lake and floated through an otherworldly landscape of towering tufa outcroppings that look like castles made out of dripping mud. The water was clouded by ...

On a walking tour at Mono Lake, visitors get a stark introduction to 80-plus years of Los Angeles’ water use. Interpretive signs stand among exposed tufa towers. They trace the lake’s decline, showing ...

We’re used to seeing flies all the time, probably throwing up on your plate of food or hovering around a garbage can, but how often do we see flies do something awe-inspiring like breathe underwater?

The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have long been a symbol of ...

Ryan Garrett, education director for the Mono Lake Committee, uses a nine-foot pole to show where the water level is supposed to be to protect the lake's health. At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush ...