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The lake's water level is notably variable. Mono Lake (/ ˈmoʊnoʊ / MOH-noh) is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake which make its water alkaline.
Image of Mono Lake from space, 1985 Lakeside of Mono Lake 1999. National Audubon Society v. Superior Court (Supreme Court of California, 1983, 33 Cal.3d 419) was a key case in California highlighting the conflict between the public trust doctrine and appropriative water rights.
Mono Lake's ecosystem for migrating birds was threatened by dropping water levels. Between 1979 and 1994, David Gaines and the Mono Lake Committee engaged in litigation with Los Angeles. The litigation forced Los Angeles to stop diverting water from around Mono Lake, which has started to rise back to a level that can support its ecosystem.
The goal, he said, is to get Mono Lake back to a level that allows the ecosystem to thrive. Read more: L.A. County captures 96 billion gallons of water during 'super year' of storms
Conservationists fight to end Los Angeles water imports from Eastern Sierra's Mono Lake. Tufa towers along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining in October 2021. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles ...
A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical interactions. [1] Lake ecosystems are a prime example of lentic ecosystems (lentic refers to stationary or relatively still freshwater, from the Latin lentus, which means "sluggish"), which ...
A controlled burn on Twain Island at Mono Lake targets invasive weeds that have deprived California gulls of prime nesting ground.
The Mono Lake Committee storefront, August 2013. The Mono Lake Committee (MLC) is an environmental organization based in Lee Vining, California in the United States.Its mission is to preserve Mono Lake, by reducing diversions of water from the Eastern Sierra watersheds by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).