As water returns to California’s Mono Basin, the
nonprofit Mono Lake Committee is getting ready for a Restoration
Days celebration, Aug. 29-Sept. 1. The four-day event is a chance
for visitors to explore, discover, and help preserve the basin,
says Kay Ogden, committee spokeswoman. The documentary film The
Battle for Mono Lake. premieres Aug. 29, and a “rehydration
ceremony” the next day promises to be less strenuous than in the
past, when bicyclists carried water 300 miles from Los Angeles to
Mono Lake, to protest the diversion of the lake’s inlets to the
city. After a lengthy court battle, preservationists won protection
for the lake in 1994, when minimum legal flows into the lake were
established. Since then, the water level has risen by 7.6 feet and
the basin is healing slowly from over 50 years of water diversions.
For more information, contact Ogden at 760/647-6595, or via e-mail
at kay@monolake.org.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Celebrate Mono Lake.
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