PG&E crews travel by airboat in June to decommission power poles in a flooded pistachio orchard in Corcoran, Calif., which lies in the Tulare Basin. Maybe going forward, we should be a little more respectful and find ways to accommodate, to at least some degree, the coming back of these water bodies, and what they mean, not only spiritually and …
Mono Lake rests under the snowcapped peaks of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. State regulators are considering a pause on water imports from the Eastern Sierra Nevada’s Mono Lake watershed to allow the fragile ecosystem to recover after decades of diversions to the L.A. Basin. After excessive diversions into the L.A. Aqueduct led to the infamous near-collapse of Mono Lake’s fragile …
The remains of a wild horse sit along the shores of Mono Lake on May 6. As multiple feet of snow finally melted around one of Mono County’s greatest attractions, U.S. Forest Service officials and volunteers found remnants of a large presence of wild horses — ones that typically range much farther east — that wintered around Mono Lake and …
