The controversial roundup netted more than 450 wild horses, which had trampled grasses and used tufa towers as scratching ...

Happy Monday! Here are some of the articles or essays you may have missed this past weekend: ‘They’re raping the land.’ | ...

For the past three days, Ronda Kauk has watched through high-powered binoculars as low-flying helicopters pursue hundreds of ...

At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads "Oasis in the Desert." Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the group of ...

The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have long been a symbol of ...

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 ...

Wild horses graze along the eastern shores of Mono Lake, famed for limestone columns called tufa. Several dozen horses calmly graze along the shores of Mono Lake,asparkling saline expanse spread out ...

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 ...

Against the backdrop of a severe drought linked with global warming, conservation advocates and Native Americans in California are calling for a temporary emergency stop to all surface water ...

With its haunting rock spires and salt-crusted shores, Mono Lake is a Hollywood vision of the apocalypse. To the city of Los Angeles, however, this Eastern Sierra basin represents the very source of L ...

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