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	Mono Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The whole food chain of the lake is based on the high population of single-celled algae present in the warm shallow waters.
		Mono Lake is a vital resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds and has been recognized as an International Reserve in the Western Hemisphere Reserve Network.
		Spherical Panorama of Mono Lake and Tufas - Carel Struycken
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mono_Lake (1097 words)

	Mono Lake
		Mono Lake is a large, deep, hypersaline and alkaline lake.
		The very highest abundances were found separated from the lake by such a distance that the pond water is unlikely to wash into the lake, particularly with little to no rainfall as is characteristic for this region in the fall.
		Calculations establish that lake rotifer populations are possible with approximately 45 ponds the size of site 5 in order to seed the entire lake for the largest population size of fall, 1999 with the lowest pond densities.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~hea/mono_lake.htm (1828 words)

	About Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake, the oldest lake in North America, is naturally hypersaline and alkaline.
		Mono Lake, two and half times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean, remains an “extreme environment” with a thriving community of halophiles and alkaliphiles.
		Mono Lake has become known for its unusual limestone towers- revealed by the decline in water level and known to extend up to 12 feet.
	serc.carleton.edu /microbelife/topics/monolake (453 words)

	Mono Lake, California, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake now covers an area of about 70 square miles and reaches a maximum depth of about 150 feet, but averages about 60 feet in depth.
		The streams that feed the lake are oases for songbirds and fishers, such as osprey (Pandion haliaetus) and belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon).
		Twenty years of negotiations and court challenges brought by the Mono Lake Committee and other conservation groups led to an order that the City of Los Angeles reduce diverting water from the lake’s streams in 1994.
	www.livinglakes.org /mono (835 words)

	mono lake background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake lies in a tectonic basin surrounded on all sides by mountains.The Sierra Nevada Mountains are to the west of the lake.
		Mono Lake’s terraced shorelines are a result of lake retreat, and contribute to the excessive exposure of one of the Basin’s most striking features, tufa towers.
		Mono Lake lies in the rainshadow on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.The annual precipitation in Mono Lake averages 6 inches.Thunderstorms, some of which may be intense and localized, are the primary source of summer rainfall with the Mono Basin.
	www.wetmaap.org /Mono_Lake/Supplement/ml_background.html (3364 words)

	Recent Changes in Mono Basin, California
		From the sedimentary record Mono Lake is estimated to be at least 730,000 years old, and therefore one of the oldest bodies of water in North America.
		As water diversions to Los Angeles caused the lake's salinity to increase, the brine shrimp population was adversely impacted.
		Almost all Mono Lake dust particles are of a size of about 11 m or smaller, and are therefore capable of causing irritation to the human respiratory tract.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /classes/ge148/1997C/Reports/monolake.html (3373 words)

	GORP - Inyo National Forest - Birding
		Mono Lake is one of the main stopovers for the Wilson's Phalaropes; as many as 90,000 have been counted at one time.
		Mono is one of the few lakes that provides the amount of food necessary for the phalaropes' distant and arduous flight south.
		The Mono Lake County Park on the north shore is a marshy, streambank (riparian) habitat.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_forest/ca/brd_inyo.htm (1776 words)

	Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake is situated at the northern stretch of the Long Valley Caldera and has held water since this eruption or maybe longer.
		Mono Lake supports a unique variety of fly, called the Kutsavi fly, which has adapted to the Lake’s saline conditions.
		Once Mono Lake reaches this “stabilized” level, the Department of Water and Power will only be able to divert 1/3 the volume of water it had from 1970-1983 [15].
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/environmental_studies/monolake.html (2123 words)

	Distant Imge of Mono Lake, Californiaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake is a 20 km (12 miles) wide lake just east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
		The lake isn't a volcano, but there are a number of volcanoes in the area.
		The easiest to find is the island in the lake, which erupted as recently as 200 years ago.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/img_mono_lake.html (118 words)

	Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake is an ancient salt lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
		Although tolerant of high salt content, the highly adapted organisms of the lake's ecosystem had reached their limits, and a complete collapse of the ecosystem was imminent.
		The Tufa formations are the result of springs under the lake bed bubbling up freshwater with a high calcium content into the lake, which then reacts with the salts in the lake's water, and forming calcium carbonate structures of weird and wondrous shapes.
	members.aol.com /OptiquesJN/monolake.htm (328 words)

	WHSRN - Mono Lake
		Mono Lake, a million year old inland sea, lies within a closed basin ringed by the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin.
		Mono Lake's brine shrimp is being considered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for listing as a federally threatened species, due to increasing salinity.
		Mono Lake and the lakebed exposed since water diversions began in 1941 are owned by the State of California, except where the exposed lakebed lies downward of federal land (these lakeshore properties are owned by the federal government).
	www.manomet.org /WHSRN/viewsite.php?id=44 (1444 words)

	SFUHS: Trip to Mono Lake
		Mono Lake’s unique ecology and water properties made an interesting topic for the class which has been studying water quality.
		The story of Mono Lake is an interesting one in which environmentalists and politicians have battled for years to secure the lake’s water.
		This wreaked havoc on the ecology of the lake and brine shrimp population plummeted, as did the birds that relied on the shrimp for food.
	www.sfuhs.org /features/mono_lake.shtml (707 words)

	Mono Lake Tufa SR
		Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles.
		Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean.
		All types of boating are permitted on Mono Lake, although access is restricted to all islands between April 1 and August 1 each year to protect the nesting gulls.
	www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=514 (749 words)

	Mono Life Meets Mono Lake
		Mono Lake in California is nearly 700,000 years old, making it one of the oldest lakes in North America.
		Swimmers in the lake find that they literally cannot sink (dissolved carbonates, chlorides and sulfates make floating easy) but their skin does tend to bleach and burn in the alkaline water.
		There are no fish, but the lake supports trillions of brine shrimp (which feed vast numbers of nesting and migrating birds) and a bizarre variety of scuba-diving alkaline flies.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/mars-life-99b.html (1657 words)

	Photos from Mono Craters, CA
		Mono Craters are part of a larger structure that includes the Inyo Craters to the south and the volcanoes of Mono Lake to the north, which together form a 40-km-long chain of Late Pleistocene and Holocene craters, domes, and flows.
		Mono Craters lie just south of Mono Lake, and can be easily viewed from the lake, as well as from Highways 395 and 120.
		Mono Lake and Paoha Island are visible in the distance.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~meltzner/mono (1763 words)

	The Mono Inn at Mono Lake
		This roadside Inn is the jewel of California’s Eastern Sierra – overlooking the ancient sea of Mono Lake, its islands, and range of volcanic craters.
		The Mono Inn was established in 1922 by Wallis and Venita McPhearson.
		Sarah Adams, a granddaughter of photographer Ansel Adams, is the proprietor of the historic Mono Inn at Mono Lake.
	www.monoinn.com /webpages/historical.html (351 words)

	A New Form of Life
		It was a quick visit--only one day at the lake to collect samples of water and mud, then back to the lab in Huntsville, Alabama, for analysis.
		At Mono Lake microfossils are abundant in tufa.
		Then, during the searing heat of August, 2000 Hoover explored California's Death Valley, Owens Lake, and Mono Lake to seek the microbes that live in alkaline pools and lakes, evaporite basins and salt playas.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/30jul_monolake.htm (1297 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Preface 1X Mono Lake and the surrounding national scenic area managed by the U.S. Forest Service have become the sub- ject of a widespread controversy.
		Throughout the country, but especially in the West, there are bumper stickers ad- vocating "Save Mono Lake." Conservation groups continue to use legal pathways in their attempts to preserve scenic and ecological components of the basin in the face of per- ceived threats to its resources.
		Mono Lake is naturally salty and alkaline because it has no outlet.
	espanol.lycos.com /info/mono--mono-lake.html (497 words)

	Mono Lake
		Mono Lake acquired a certain fame in the 70s, despite its homeliness, when a few determined souls noticed that LA was rapidly sucking it dry and set out to put an end to the theft.
		Their heroic efforts were at least temporarily successful, and the lake level is gradually rising once again, even as the bumper stickers fade and peel.
		The sudden vision of the lake itself is enough to bring the cameras out, but not enough to make very many people stay longer than it takes to get pie and coffee at Nicely's.
	www.naturepages.com /mono.html (813 words)

	WATER'S ARISING: Thirty years ago a bunch of college students studied and worried about the fate of Mono Lake. This ...
		The lake is teeming with brine shrimp and alkali flies that feed the birds.
		And the lake was shrinking, leaving an alkali dust ring that caused unhealthy air pollution that filled the sky hundreds of miles away.
		Salt lakes throughout the world are desiccated, and Mono Lake is the exception,'' Jellison said.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/29/MONOLAKE.TMP (2210 words)

	The Sierra Web \| Mono Lake, California
		The long battle to protect Mono Lake from the effects of stream diversions to Los Angeles produced a plan, September 1994, meant to protect the lake.
		Life in the lake was threatened by the increasingly harsh water, including algae, brine shrimp and alkali flies — food for over a million migratory and nesting birds.
		The decision to protect Mono Lake, after so many years of battling in court, was facilitated by plans to build several water reclaimation plants in Los Angeles.
	www.thesierraweb.com /monolake/update.cfm (520 words)

	MONO LAKE
		Perhaps the most intriguing of Mono Lake's phenomena are the tufa (pronounced "toofah") towers visible along much of the shoreline.
		Mono Lake and the adjacent basin are open for year-round recreation.
		Lake View Lodge in nearby Lee Vining is convenient to both Mono Lake & Bodie.
	www.yosemitegold.com /yosemite/mono.html (528 words)

	Mono Lake Paddling Trip
		The lake is large (something like 9 by 3 miles, but don't quote me on that), very alkali (nothing lives in it but billions of brine shrimp), and of course, it has those cool tufa formations (think stalagmites, or is it stalagtites?).
		The lake is located on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in California (almost Nevada) in high desert country around 7000 feet or so.
		While Mono Lake is very unusual, this paddling duo must admit to really getting our jollies in a number of high Sierra lakes.
	www.steveharrell.com /paddling/monolaketrip.htm (268 words)

	Mono Lake - CA
		Mono is the largest nesting/brooding area for Sea Gulls in the West.
		Mono has been the subject of controversy and outrage in California; the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has diverted water flowing into the lake and the levels dropped.
		Mono is in the Eastern Sierra area and is 120 miles south of Reno and close to the east entrance to Yosemite National Park.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?466 (747 words)

	Mono Lake
		DIVERSE ECOSYSTEM: A Canadia goose rests on a tufa structure in Mono Lake, Calif. The salty lake, far from being dead, supports 85 percent of the Golden State’s breeding population of California gulls and is a rest stop on the path of many migratory birds.
		Mono Lake is one of the World’s Living Lakes, lakes of extreme international ecological importance.
		The lake is home to 85 percent of the Golden State’s breeding population of California gulls; it’s the second largest colony in the world after the group in Great Salt Lake in Utah.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/html/2002/07/13/19058.php (1665 words)

	Summary of Mono Lake Litigation and Legislative Designations
		In a 1983 precedent-setting decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state has an obligation to protect places such as Mono Lake "as far as feasible," even if this means a reconsideration of past water allocation decisions.
		1981 - Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve: As a result of the lobbying efforts of the MLC and others, the shorelands exposed due to the decline of Mono Lake were designated as the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve.
		Once the lake reaches 6392 feet, DWP will be able to divert, on average, 31,000 acre-feet of water, or about 1/3 of the City's historical diversion from the Mono Basin.
	www.monobasinresearch.org /timelines/polchr.htm (1538 words)

	PBS - Weekend Explorer - Mono Lake
		Natural salts are washed into the lake, but they are left behind when water evaporates.
		Almost 300 species of birds have been sighted here, and the lake is very important to migrating birds.
		Mono Lake is on the Pacific Flyway, the name for a broad north-south bird migration path, the Eastern Sierras is also visited by numerous bird species categorized as long distance migrants.
	www.pbs.org /weekendexplorer/california/mammoth/monoquiz.htm (254 words)

	Photo gallery of Mono Lake, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mono Lake is the saline remnant of a much larger lake that filled the the Mono basin during the Pleistocene.
		Paoha Island is predominantly a domed mass of lake-bottom sediments that was uplifted by an intrusion of magma beneath the lake as recently as 250 years ago.
		The lake is 40-50 m deep immediately west of Paoha Island, and several submarine craters have been identified around the island.
	lvo.wr.usgs.gov /gallery/MonoLake_1.html (220 words)

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