The Mono Lake Committee formed in response and won a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially replenish the lake level.
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19 Facts About Mono Lake
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Mono Lake occupies part of the Mono Basin, an endorheic basin that has no outlet to the ocean.
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The tributaries of Mono Lake include Lee Vining Creek, Rush Creek and Mill Creek which flows through Lundy Canyon.
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Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America.
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Currently, Mono Lake is in a geologically active area at the north end of the Mono–Inyo Craters volcanic chain and is close to Long Valley Caldera.
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An important characteristic of Mono Lake is that it is a closed lake, meaning it has no outflow.
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Covariation between dO in lake water and lake level in Mono Lake have been recorded over a 150-year time interval in Mono Lake.
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Mono Lake reveals the climate variation on 3 different time scales: Dansgaard-Oeschger, Heinrich, and Milankovich .
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In turn, this caused Southern water bodies like Mono Lake to become isotopically depleted, while Northern oceans became isotopically enriched.
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Mono Lake has experienced meromictic periods in the past; this most recent episode of meromixis, brought on by the end of the water diversions, commenced in 1994 and had ended by 2004.
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Mono Lake is a vital resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds and has been recognized as a site of international importance by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.
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Mono Lake has the second largest nesting population of California gulls, Larus californicus, second only to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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Indigenous people of Mono Lake are from a band of the Northern Paiute, called the Kutzadika'a.
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Term "Mono Lake" is derived from "Monachi", a Yokut term for the tribes that live on both the east and west side of the Sierra Nevada.
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Mono Lake was referred to by the Paiute names of Shibana or Poko Tucket.
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The Eastern Mono Lake joined the Western Mono Lake bands' villages annually at Hetch Hetchy Valley, Yosemite Valley, and along the Merced River to gather acorns, different plant species, and to trade.
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The Western Mono Lake traditionally lived in the south-central Sierra Nevada foothills, including Historical Yosemite Valley.
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Present day Mono Lake Reservations are currently located in Big Pine, Bishop, and several in Madera County and Fresno County, California.
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Owens Mono Lake, the once-navigable terminus of the Owens River which had sustained a healthy ecosystem, is a dry lake bed during dry years due to water diversion beginning in the 1920s.
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