Famous for its dramatic and bizarre rock formations, known as the tufa towers, Mono Lake is a stunning nature reserve in ...

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 ...

Mono Lake is just one of the sources Los Angeles uses to meet its water demands. But those who oversee it want a better plan to keep more of the water in the basin. As the snow in the Sierras ...

Over half a million years old, the story of Mono Lake is one of survival. Many of the big saline lakes of the Americas are on the brink of collapse due to climate change and water diversions. Mono ...

To the editor: Mono Lake was supposedly “saved” way back in 1994 with the landmark California Supreme Court decision. But 31 years later, the water level in the lake is still not high enough to ensure ...

Officials in Santa Barbara County are exploring the possibility of allowing visitors to swim in Lake Cachuma, a human-made reservoir in the Santa Ynez Valley where swimming has been banned since its ...

On the afternoon of May 22, a wildfire sparked next to Highway 395 near the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, causing major damage to the reserve’s infrastructure. The ...

Ancient limestone towers emerge from Mono Lake, shaped by time and a unique geochemical process. Towering limestone formations, Tufas, rise from Mono Lake, sculpted over thousands of years by a unique ...