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		Its mission is to preserve Mono Lake by preventing excessive diversion of water by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).
		Mono Lake is an important habitat for migatory birds (including the California Gull).
		In 1979, the MLC, along with the Audobon Society filed suit in Mono County, California Superior Court, claiming that LADWP's water diversions violated the public trust doctrine : that all navigable water must be managed for the benefit of everyone.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Mono_Lake_Committee (312 words)

	Mono Lake, California, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Salinity of the lake doubled, threatening the lake’s specialized animals and plants, from brine shrimp to migratory shorebirds.
		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 Committee -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mono Lake Committee (MLC) is an (Click link for more info and facts about environmental organization) environmental organization based in (Click link for more info and facts about Lee Vining, California) Lee Vining, California.
		Mono Lake is an important habitat for migatory birds (including the (Click link for more info and facts about California Gull) California Gull).
		In that ruling, LADWP was required to let enough water into Mono Lake to raise the lake level 20 feet (6.1 m) above the then-current level of 25 feet (7.6 m) below the 1941 level.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mo/Mono_Lake_Committee.htm (367 words)

	Kevin Roderick: Mono Lake Committee
		Legislation signed Saturday by Gov. George Deukmejian elevates the Mono Lake Committee's blue-jean clad activists to nearly equal status with Los Angeles in deciding the fate of the city's once-sacred rights to the water that flows naturally down four streams and into the primordial lake, one of the oldest on the continent.
		A 65-square-mile puddle of blue on the edge of a desert plain 6,000 feet above sea level, the lake is battered by desert heat in summer and freezing winter winds that swirl clouds of alkali dust not advisable for breathing.
		Committee pressure also helped secure state money for studies that have backed up the group's central contention -- that nesting birds, especially California gulls, were endangered by the dropping water level.
	www.kevinroderick.com /monocomm.html (1576 words)

	Mono Lake Case Study
		The lake once served as a stop-over for millions of water fowl on their journey along the Pacific Flyway.(26) Now the lake is a dusty expanse that poses a health hazard to humans.
		In the Mono lake case the issue was centered around the environmental effects of the water policy, and the change is signified by the LADWP's reaction to the initial uproar over Mono Lake.
		By 1978 it was evident, as the lake's level became dangerously low, that Mono Lake was quickly heading toward the same fate as Owens Lake.(64) This led to a number of significant events for the protection of the lake.
	www.american.edu /ted/mono.htm (3956 words)

	High Country News -- December 8, 1997: Mono Lake: Victory over Los Angeles turns into local controversy
		The plan has pitted the Mono Lake Committee, bent on restoring the lake and its habitat, against many locals who feel their valley’s character and history are at stake - and too high a price to pay to revive a natural stream system.
		To Bonnie Noles, whose family settled in the Mono Basin in the 1870s and later homesteaded 160 acres overlooking Mono Lake, restoring a natural creek at the expense of a century of local history is not only outrageous, it’s unrealistic.
		Roger Porter, who manages the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area, says the restoration conflict is the sign of a new era which the Mono Lake Committee and the community are entering along with the basin itself.
	www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=3820 (2713 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 Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mono Lake is unique, it's over 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent.
		Mono Lake is naturally salty and alkaline because it has no outlet.
		Mono Lake and the adjacent basin are open for year-round recreation.
	www.sierragatewaymap.com /mono_lake.html (229 words)

	WMC Networker Spring 97: Mono Lake Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mono Lake Committee is a nonprofit citizens¼ group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Mono Basin ecosystem, educating the public about Mono Lake and the environmental impacts of excessive water use, and promoting cooperative solutions that protect Mono Lake and meet real water needs without transferring environmental problems to other areas.
		The Mono Lake Committee was formed in 1978 to save Mono Lake from excessive water diversions from its tributary streams to Los Angeles.
		The Committee also conducts a range of educational activities in the Mono Basin and in Los Angeles, including weekend workshops and free public tours.
	www.watershed.org /news/spr_97/mono_lake.html (279 words)

	Mono Lake
		Located in California's spectacular Eastern Sierra, Mono Lake is an oasis in the dry Great Basin and a vital habitat for millions of migratory and nesting birds.
		For 25 years the Mono Lake Committee has been working to protect Mono Lake from destruction, to heal the damage done in the Mono Basin, and to educate the public about the natural environment and wise water use.
		ello from Lee Vining, California, and Mono Lake.
	www.monolake.org (126 words)

	The Lake and the 'hood, Jane Braxton Little: Mono Lake, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), grebes, ...
		Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop the diversions.
		She worked with the Mono Lake Committee to send a group of Los Angeles youth to the Lake for five days of camping, hiking, and swimming.
		The link between Mono Lake and their lives in Los Angeles is intangible for most of these campers, but one may have spoken for all when he said, “Mono’s better than Magic Mountain.
	www.futurenet.org /article.asp?ID=689 (1878 words)

	Mono Lake Committee only American representative at World Exposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the EXPO 2000 Living Lakes is presented in the Global House, the House of Worldwide Projects at the center of the EXPO.
		The American partner lake in the project, Mono Lake, is a terminal saline lake near Yosemite National Park in California that was threatened by excessive water diversions to the city of Los Angeles.
		The Mono Lake Committee is sharing its successes with the rest of the world via Living Lakes, and developed the Living Lakes Website found at www.livinglakes.org after developing the award-winning Mono Lake Website, www.monolake.org.
	www.livinglakes.com /news/ll000704.htm (578 words)

	Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mono Lake Committee's official position has been essentially these same recommended levels for the last ten years.
		Recent independent studies of Mono Lake by the National Academy of Sciences and the study done for the California Legislature arrived at the same recommended levels.
		Also, you can write Mono Lake Committee for their critique and review of the management plan at P.O. Box 29, Lee Vining, CA 93514.
	www.sierraescape.com /headers/mono.html (415 words)

	WHSRN - Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Caldera Kayaks - Mammoth Lakes, CA
		Mono Lake is the birthplace of eighty five percent of the California gull species within California, home to the brine shrimp, alkali flies, and is an essential feeding layover for numerous species of migratory birds.
		Mono Lake is noted for its unique tufa formations and is especially important for bird rookeries and migratory routes.
		Mono Lake from the perspective of a sea kayak is a memorable experience.
	www.calderakayak.com (2677 words)

	THE MONO LAKE WATER ISSUE: AN UPDATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Four of the streams that feed Mono Lake were diverted in 1941 to supply water to Los Angeles.
		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 /sightseeing/monolake/update.html (591 words)

	NapaNews.com \| Possible threat to Mono Lake, nation's first federal scenic area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LEE VINING, Calif. -- Mono Lake, the high desert fascination of humorist Mark Twain that's nearly three times as salty as the ocean, remains the home to trillions of brine shrimp where thousands of California Gulls nest each spring -- all preserved because of ecological activism.
		The original plan called for 24 to 30 homes scattered across a highway from the lake, and the county expects the revised proposal to also fit the homes into the hilly landscape to minimize the visual and environmental impact.
		The lake was on a path to destruction after Los Angeles diverted four tributary streams into the Los Angeles Aquaduct in 1941.
	www.napanews.com /templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=63F9CD7B-A5BC-4322-B214-484173D22DAE (743 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.
		In the decision, the state had to comply with Fish and Game code requirements for Mono Lake's tributary streams, and, on top of the water needed to protect the fisheries, ensure that the lake's public trust values (such as air quality, scenic and wildlife values) were protected.
		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)

	Important Information
		Join Committee members and staff as we exchange fun stories about the past and talk about where the Mono Lake Committee is headed in the future.
		Each year the Mono Lake Committee gives the Defender of the Trust Award out to an individual or group that has shown extraordinary commitment to protecting Mono Lake.
		Sunday 12:15 at the Mono Lake County Park during the Chautauqua Concert and Picnic.
	www.birdchautauqua.org /activities.htm (708 words)

	Mono Lake Living Lab
		Students have had the opportunity to study native Americans who were indigenous to the Mono Lake area, research some of the writings and authors of the region and time period, and analyze water samples while checking for temperature and salinity.
		Upon arrival at Mono Lake, we were assigned a guide who took us on a tour of the South Tufa, and a canoe tour of Mono Lake.
		While students toured the lake, video cameras, digital and still cameras and journals were used to document their findings.
	www.bonita.k12.ca.us /schools/sandimas/teachers/MONO (574 words)

	ABC News: Development May Be Threat to Calif. Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mono Lake tufa towers are seen Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, near Lee Vining, Calif. The ancient towers, composed of calcium carbonate, were formed underwater when fresh water springs mixed with minerals in the lakewater, and became visible when lake water receded over the past 60 years due to water diversion to Los Angeles.
		Now, residents and the U.S. Forest Service say the Mono Lake protections are imperiled by a plan to subdivide 120 acres for luxury homes on the lake's western shore.
		LEE VINING, Calif. Nov 17, 2004 —; Mono Lake, the high desert fascination of humorist Mark Twain that's nearly three times as salty as the ocean, remains the home to trillions of brine shrimp where thousands of California Gulls nest each spring all preserved because of ecological activism.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=259021 (832 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)

	Lecture 14: Mono Lake
		Mono Lake is a Large Alkaline Lake East of the Sierra Nevada
		Mono Lake does not have much biological diversity- not many creatures are adapted to survive in the salty alkaline water
		The Mono Lake Committee is an excellent source of information on everything from natural history to political developments.
	members.aol.com /Tenaya21/Ecology/LectureNotes/lec14.html (1433 words)

	Water Diversions at Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Committee also publishes a quarterly newsletter that is available in the information center, and that it sends to its current 17,000 members.
		As a result of the lobbying efforts of the MLC and others, the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve was created in 1981, and in 1984 the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area was created.
		In 1979, the MLC and the National Audubon Society (NAS) argued in the Mono County Superior Court that water diversions to Los Angeles did not comply with the public trust doctrine.
	www.livinglakes.org /mono/diversions.htm (817 words)

	The Orion Grassroots Network
		Host Organization: The Mono Lake Committee is a 15,000-member citizens group located at 6,780 ft. elevation in Lee Vining, dedicated to the permanent protection and restoration of the Mono Basin ecosystem.
		The local area is comprised of sagebrush steppe, piñon-juniper, and Jeffrey pine forest communities, 46,000 acres of Mono Lake, numerous 12,000+ ft. Sierra peaks, and plug-dome volcanoes.
		Mono Lake Committee Information Center is located in the town of Lee Vining, California (pop app.
	www.oriononline.org /pages/ogn/viewposition.cfm?action=one&ogn_position_ID=423 (544 words)

	Mono Lake Century 2000
		Streams feeding Mono Lake are what the Los Angeles water district has been draining for decades, much to the environmental disaster of a very ecologically fragile lake on the eastern side of the Sierras.
		It was a wonder that the judgment was in favor of the Committee and against the politically strong LA Power/Water District!
		The Mono Lake area is an environmental jewel, and a fascinating place to spend time.
	www.stanford.edu /~jcolwell/monolakecentury2000.html (1368 words)

	Mono Lake Microbial Observatory
		Mono Lake represents an extreme environment that is likely to harbor unique microbes.
		While abundant bacterial populations and the existence of pronounced bacterial plates have been noted before in Mono Lake, the temporal and spatial variation in diversity of the bacterial community has only recently begun to be investigated.
		The primary goal of the Mono Lake Microbial Observatory project is to examine the distributions of Mono Lake microbes and to understand the response of microbial assemblages to the gradients of physical and chemical variables in relation to temporal changes driven by hydrodynamics.
	www.monolake.uga.edu (240 words)

	Mono Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I did not realize that Mono Lake was such a wonderous place for wildlife too until I visited the information center in Lee Vining, which also turned out to house the Mono Lake Committee.
		The consequence of diverting water from Mono Lake was that by 1982 the level of the lake had dropped 45 feet and lost half of its volume.
		The drought in LA and the Mono Lake problem transformed water management and led to an increase in water reclamation facilities.
	www.kahncious.net /discover/mono.htm (510 words)

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