The Mono Lake Story
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Mono Lake is a striking blue oasis in the eastern California surrounded by desert peaks, volcanoes, and the Sierra Nevada. Strange tufa tower formations and saline waters lie at the edge of mountain streams and snow-capped mountains. Millions of birds, trillions of brine shrimp, and countless alkali flies contribute to one of the most productive lake ecosystems on the planet.
In 1941, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power began the Mono Lake Storydiverting water from Mono Lake's tributary streams, sending it 350 miles south to meet the growing water demands of Los Angeles. Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake dropped 45 vertical feet. Its salinity doubled and the ecosystem approached collapse.
Researchers, students, bird freaks, and an engaged public took notice and formed the Mono Lake Committee. Sixteen Years later, this dedicated grassroots movement altered history by protecting Mono Lake, securing new water solutions for Los Angeles, and transforming water law in California. The Mono Lake Story is about changing values and balancing those values against difficult odds. It's about how a small and dedicated group of individuals, trying to do the right thing, can grow into an effective coalition of organizations, agencies, and public support that triumph over fundamental environmental challenges.
The Mono Lake story is a rare environmental success that can inspire and inform the environmental challenges of our time.
I’ve been to this lake before and I had no idea what kind of lake it was. I drove all the way from Yosemite to that lake in order to “swim”. Once I got there I saw no one swimming , but I still grabbed my beach towel and approached the water. As i got closed to the water this nasty horrible smell started hitting me, then as I got closer a bunch of flies were all over the shore of the water and started flying towards me. It was sooo disgusting. I ran back to my car and just stood there looking at the lake. It was definitely not what I was expecting, but as I looked at it I started admiring it’s components. It was a truly magical experience, that lake is beautiful in its own way. This lakes makes you feel like you are in a different planet, it is so mysterious.
Yes..
I was thinking of swimming there too, but I looked up this video to see how its like... ill leave it to the creatures to enjoy!!
Same thing happened to me at the Great Salt Lake, except I jumped in lol! Nothing like not being able to drown....or sink that is
Those were Alkali Flies
All Southern Californians should regard this most beautiful, generous, and resilient lake with more reverence, and be grateful for its life giving generosity!!... thank you so much for great documentary!👍🏽🏜
The backside of the Sierras is the most Beautiful place on Earth. Mono Lake is a very special place. Take a slow drive up 395 sometime. If it's summer drive up to Tioga Pass. Just amazing. So it is of course worth preserving.
I’ve been blessed to visit Mono Lake on several occasions, twice as part of dedicated photography trips. It is my favorite place on this earth. It is magical, desolate yet full of life; as if it were a lake on the moon.
Amazing place. Great video! Was pleased to support the Mono Lake Comittee by yearly membership for a few years, and that’s with living in Florida. Long Live Mono Lake!
Could the most well done piece I've ever seen on YT, thank you
I remember going to Mono Lake for the first time on a college photography trip.. As we drove down the hill towards the lake I thought, "this is it?!?" 🤔 .. I was thinking why would we drive all the way here?!...whoa was I wrong!!!...it is absolutely incredible! Just so amazing and deserving of protection and admiration. I can't express how beautiful it was too photograph the tufa in the middle of the night with a countless number of stars in the sky... It's definitely worth a courteous visit. 😁👍
Was just here today, in the amazing place where the Sierra Nevada meets the Great Basin, at Mono Lake.
Thank you for this video, I am a college student and I am going to share this story to my Ecology class
Limey here, that was bloody great! Beautiful story, beautiful film. Thankyou and all power to you.
i went here in 97 with friends everything about owens valley is beautiful, mono lake, alabama hills and the ghost towns, have not been back due to a massive stroke, camping at alabama hills and exploring all the ghost towns again someday is my main bucket list
Are you doing ok?
@@sam_s_ yea i'm ok
@@jeffreygreer home you can make it back there soon 🤞🏼
My wife and I and our dog drive by this lake from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe nearly every year! We have stopped shortly to see it and then moved on to our destination. Last time, we actually stopped and thought about making our next trip to this place! Week of October 10th we are visiting to learn and explore! We can not wait! Mono lake Story video is a great reminder to city people like us to help conserve! We are doing as much as we can even if it is minuscule in the grand scheme!
The orchestration for this video is as awesome as the story itself!
Stunning images! The video is beautifully done. I'm glad the yt algorithm suggested your channel. It's wonderful that there's been so much rain and snow this year; 2023. Thanks for posting.
RIP & Thank you so much David Gaines, I remember those early days of saving Rush Creek, at that time my daughter was born when we were living in June Lake. All these decades later i now live on the shore of the dry Owens lake at Keeler beach, reflecting on the water that is no longer there. Being born down where the water now goes, yet ending up in my life at its source again is my own metaphor of life. Shundahai to all those who care..
Thank you for keeping this history alive. Our government can and will only do so much to save these precious places in the face of big money.
You all are awesome people. Thanks for protecting mother earth
Dad happened to be on that water board at the time, it was a major court victory to restore the inlets to Mono.
Is rainbow is real?
Amazing!!!!
Fantastic
Very very sad 💔 I was there and it was about 40 years ago. Magnificent…
I live in Ontario, Canada but several years ago I visited this area. I didn't get to the tufas but spent a fine old time wandering Panum Crater. As a geology/vulcanology buff, this was amazing.
I was there last Summer and was supposed to go last Monday (but that didn't work out). It is such an interesting place. When the Sun goes down behind the Sierra's in the late afternoon, it feels so magical. I enjoyed it more than my first Yosemite trip the following day.
Global conditions allowing, I will go after the last day of school in June (UC Davis).
Totally amazing and now i wanna visit for sure! This is how it gets done. Indigenous know the story - they have been on this continent for 1000s of years. thank you!
Beautifully done. Thankful this popped up on my feed.
Who knew a lake's entire ecosystem would depend on water! :D
Water becomes rain , rain becomes water.
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Don't drink it, most bitter water I've ever tasted, not even salty just bad. (obviously it's extremely salty but not like concentrated seawater/table salt)
My husband and I were there in 1995 beautiful, never seen so much snow in my life!
,,,,,wow..............so cool.......................... SEA MONKEYS ? ? ? ................................
Excellent video!! Thank you for sharing...
Saw it & re-saw it many times in the 1970s!!! Great viewing!!
Trip between Tahoe & Mono is other-worldly in winter, also
1st saw it 1969
so inspiring, thanks.
my science teacher sent me here
mine has too
you got mr buhl too?
same :l
Amazing
Well made and a well told story. Yes we can!
No it was not I had to do this for homework
Great video.
If visiting the Panum Crater, while turning onto the Mono Lake Basin Road off highway 395, set your radio to 93.7 FM to hear KSKS from Fresno knife-edge the signal over the Sierras.
I've been here numerous time, but I've never viewed it as the narrator described it.
This is a very good video, beautifully shot, and for me, just the right amount of narration. The topic was on point, too, with water supplies becoming a global as well as a local issue. We are still in the throes of changing our perception of natural resources, and how short sightedness and self-centeredness can cause so much damage to our environment. This was encapsulated in the clip of the old film about the aqueducts and Owens Lake, when the narrator blithely stated that the diverted water would otherwise be 'wasted' going to the lake. I guess that the thousands of birds living by this 'barren' lake didn't register on anyone's awareness until they had all gone, and the drained lake bed, which really is barren, was exposed...
This is an inspiring video. We visited Mono Lake a few years ago, the water seemed really low. When was this filmed?
Was sent by my teacher...
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Same
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Must be a great class (seriously).
Beautiful. Now let's restore Owen's Lake
Owens Lake has been replenished in 2023 due to all the rain. Los Angeles still runs the water there. I'll have to read up on what the plan is. Cadillac Desert, a book, is a good read about the destruction of Owens Valleys. v
I’m proud to be mono
Love learning
I was just there today for the first time. The one thing I didnt expect was the smell to remind me so much of northern California beaches on the coast. lol. such a cool lake. I will be back to visit it again. only about 120 miles from home for me.
Between this video and my visit today I am inspired to go back with my camera and spend a full day or more just wandering around the area.
Cinderella, Don’t know what you got, till it’s gone was filmed here.
Also, Clint Eastwood’s High plains drifter
I'm glad those red buildings are no longer there. I saw them when they were making that Eastwood movie. A very visual distraction from the beauty of the area.
I am thankful for what was saved but furious for what was lost.
How's about reducing the mosquito/ fly infestation , by reintroducing the Desert Pupfish ?
There were fish there before , and there should be again . .🙂
@@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. I don't think they can live in Mono, can they?
Realize that LADWP bought up the land for the water rights thereby limiting the population of Owens Valley and preserving the rural way of life everyone there cherishes--it was and is: "Import the people or export the water." We'd rather export the water.
@@Mrbfgray
They live in much of Salt Creek and it's connected waters . They are already adapted to the conditions . .🙂
*Salt Creek Pupfish were successfully introduced to Soda Lake in 1980 .
@@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. Ahhh...thanks for the info. I remember them from my youth in the 1970's, one particular character in Bishop made it something of his life's work to save the pupfish.
This lake was probably much different when Los Angeles water and power started taking 3/5 of all the water flowing into it.
With the atmospheric river we got this year, hope it's gets the water it needs. Same with Owens Lake
this story can be applied to many different areas west of the continental divide, all its watersheds and most certainly the Colorado River and points further west and south
I’m glad this was made being born in mostly raised in bishop. I know what the water right wars are doing to the land.
I don't want too many people to come here. Because too many people may damage the ecological environment here.
Nice
This was my science assignment
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An uplifting story ! I salute those wise enough to work towards a better future for all Iife on earth !🙉🙊🙈👫🙋🌞🌞🌞🇨🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸🇮🇳🇬🇧
Please take this kind of fight to bring back owens lake.
Is there any Stereo lake in US? :)
If LA doesn't have enough water, limit the number of residents there, don't destroy eco systems.
We tried to send illegals back but the Left wouldn't have it.
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@ 9:50 there are 4 sasquatch can you find them
Mono Lake Story is totally sucess story
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It’s not everybody’s flavor but I regard mono county and all it’s attributes as one the of the prettiest, most scenic areas on the west end half of the continent. My summer days off are mostly spent there in Bridgeport or thereabouts watching the monsoonal thunderstorms. It’s unfortunate that LA has and will continue to do its best to destroy the entire area because some geniuses decided to build a mega city the the desert southwest and haven’t done anything to address the water needs thereof. (Aka storage of rainfall)
i believe the water was almost up to the highway before the LAPWD bought the land for the water all the way down the owens river valley from ranchers in the 20's to get all that snow melt to LA.
Indeed--one of our fave Bishop high school bus drivers remembered diving right off the road into the water.
Jonah Matthewson is so damn good
My great grandfather owned that lake back in the . Halstead was his last name . He bought back from 2 main who had stopped to pick their car at his body shop in San Diego. He only had it for a few yrs ,and sold to 2 men from los Angeles for 15000$ which in the mid 30s was a fortune . He made a killing ,considering he bought the title for 5k. He sold because ,after taking the family up. To see the prop.granma told to " sell this god forsaken land " because there were a couple of old ramshackle shacks,and it kinda smelled she said and so that is the rest of story as they say!
Im assuming no camping or swimming here?
mono lake....home of the brine shrimp?
Well really what they did was build a trench from up the mountain down to Los Angeles and let the water flow. Not exactly an aqueduct
Next project is to restore Owens Lake?
Who gave permission to those landowners to put up the locked gates on the Inyo National Forest dirt road #3N05 @ route 167 blocking my access to the public Mono lake ?
Be nice to mention where this is without having to Google it.
It mentions it in the description
If the flies and "shrimp" live off algae could we put these guys to work at places all over the world suffering from algae blooms?
Would you rather send some of your water to Los Angeles, or have Los Angeles come to your water? That's the question posed around here whenever it's mentioned. Building the aqueduct has done more to preserve NorCal environments than can be quantified. Even now, the East Bay is channeling as much water down there as they can spare in hopes of slowing what is ultimately an inevitable destruction of the entire area.
L.A. he's devastated the state enough. Water conservation is very behind the times in California. Among a Zillion other serious issues most people are leaving in droves and over populating other states. So their population is going down in Cali. Unless they still keep allowing immigrants to keep moving there.
Cheer up dude !
It will be an ecological disaster when those volcanoes start going off.
anyone else here from their teacher
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we need to stop all water going to LA from norcal let it dry up as la sucks
100%, unknown creature and is probably the same type of thing, taking children from places like Yellowstone and different national parks..
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This is so sad and a terrible disastrous human FUBAR. I've been to Mono & June Lakes several times just to see the beauty. What's being done to restore Mono Lake back to a natural beautiful natural wonder? Along that line what about Owens Valley.
Why not divert water from the canals to Owens and Mono lakes. It wouldn't have to be permanent just to help the two lakes renew themselves. Desalination plants for LA to use and give water from the canals flowing from northern California.
Just look what happened to The Sultan Sea. It was once a beautiful vacation spot back in the 50s/60s then destroyed by water diversion and used farming water pumped into it. It turned into a garbage pit, all recreation was stopped and now it's a waste pit. During its hay day, there was fishing, swimming, and water skiing. One of the fish was Tilapia all the fish were killed off by the water diversion and the agriculture slurry.
I say LA get cut off and dismantled. Cities are accidents waiting to happen and the future says no to the necessity of having and growing them. Time to rethink competitive economics and the wastelands it fosters.
POG i was here
Edit: I'm back again
Edit: I'm back again
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Screw LA man get your own water
Do a little critical thinking, let's see some credible photographs of mono lake before any water was diverted , a saltier than the sea tree less fly infested success story🤣🤣
do some critical thinking and shut up
So we saved seagulls & flies 😕. Two pretty annoying and disgusting creatures
not even close