MONO LAKE, Calif. (KABC) -- There's no place in California quite like Mono Lake as the salt-water body just east of Yosemite National Park features other-worldly rock formations. After being depleted ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California authorities face renewed pressure to preserve the valuable salty waters of the Mono Lake – as despite recent rainfall, a historic drought and demands from the Los ...
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 ...
At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads “Oasis in the Desert.” Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the group of ...
LEE VINING, Calif. — 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 ...
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 ...
As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird life and outlandish shoreline mineral spires — advocates are pressuring state water officials to halt diversions ...
Mono Lake's South Tufa Reserve. LA Observed file photo by Judy Graeme. Back when the legal wars were being fought over Mono Lake, a key environmental reality was that a lower water level allowed ...
When dust storms began rising off the dry bed of Owens Lake, authorities in the Eastern Sierra blamed Los Angeles’ thirst. The city had, after all, drained the lake in the 1920s to serve its faucets.
The water level at Mono Lake on the eastern edge of Yosemite National Park has dropped 3 vertical feet since 2011 as a result of the drought. It has left a noticeable “white bathtub ring” that’s ...
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