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Hope for Owens and why the Great Salt Lake presents a challenge beyond Mono and Owens

Lone Pine, California, with the Owens Lake dry lakebed in the background, is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Bay alone, now largely dry, is about the same size as Owens Lake when it was full. But drive north from Owens to Mono lake and a much better scenario can be found. When Los Angeles started taking water from two creeks that fill Mono Lake, the lake went...
October 12, 2022

When it comes to saving terminal lakes like the Great Salt Lake, understanding every drop in the watershed matters

Robbie Di Paolo, a restoration field technician for the Mono Lake Committee, takes journalists on a canoe tour of the lake and its iconic tufa formations on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 near Lee Vining, California. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
remember coming here, and there'd be no water going over the dam,” said McQuilkin, who works as executive director of the Mono Lake Committee. “That's how it operated for decades. The purpose of these facilities was to capture the full flow of the …...
October 11, 2022

Five things to know about Mono Lake

A boardwalk stretches toward the current shoreline of Mono Lake, as seen from around the location of the historic water level of Mono Lake in 1941 before water diversions by Los Angeles first began, at Mono Lake Park near Lee Vining, California, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Like the Great Salt Lake, Mono Lake is too salty for fish, which means brine shrimp thrive. But the lakes have different species of shrimp: Artemia franciscana live in the Great Salt Lake and Artemia monica live in Mono Lake. Both shrimp have unique...
October 11, 2022

The public trust doctrine prevented Mono Lake from drying up. Could it be used to save the Great Salt Lake?

One of Mono Lake’s iconic tufa formations is pictured on the south shore of the lake in Mono County, California, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Lee Vining, Calif. • Amid climate change and growing water demands that are withering terminal lakes away, Mono Lake carries a rare hopeful message. Owens Lake was one of the first cautionary tales about a salty lake with no outlet, when it dried...
October 11, 2022

Mono Lake and a possible roadmap to secure GSL's right to exist

Dust kicks up on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, California, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Great Salt Lake, another similar body of water was facing the same dire future until a creative effort saved it. On a map, Mono Lake looks like a lumpy bagel. In person, it's an entrancing gem in the shadow of some of America's tallest mountains with...
October 11, 2022

California salt lakes offer warnings signs and hope for Great Salt Lake

An area that has been converted to tillage as part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program is pictured on the dry lakebed in Inyo County, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Tillage is one of the “best available control measures” used to mitigate dust that would otherwise be kicked up from the dry lakebed. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News)
recently sent a team of Utah journalists to California to report on the failures and successes of Owens Lake and Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Thirteen years of siphoning water to Los Angeles by the city’s Department of Water and Power left...
October 10, 2022

A dusty tale in California and words of wisdom for Utah as the Great Salt Lake shrinks

The small community of Keeler is pictured with the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in the background in Inyo County, California, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Owens Dry Lakebed, Calif. — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began siphoning the waters of the 110-square-mile Owens Lake in 1913. Within 13 short years, the California lake went dry. The water helped build the then-fledgling city of Los...
October 10, 2022

The Great Salt Lake isn’t just for the birds — it’s part of a water network that ties Utah to the rest of the West and the world

A California gull sweeps the surface of Mono Lake near Lee Vining, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
us’ Salty lakes have their protectors. Many have come to realize that in the arid West, every drop of water counts. Mono Lake was among the first, where the Mono Lake Committee organized and won legal tussles to ensure the lake, someday, reaches a...
October 9, 2022

Pitfalls and possibilities: A video introduction to the project

One of Mono Lake’s iconic tufa formations is pictured on the south shore of the lake in Mono County, California, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Deseret News Spenser Heaps
America's second-biggest city. They looked even further north, stretching the aqueduct 350 miles to creeks feeding into Mono Lake. Mono Lake was close to becomingjust like Owens Lake, but today, it's alive with birds and brine shrimp. The lessons from...
October 9, 2022

The saline lakes of the Great Basin and why they are in trouble

The rising sun reflects off of pools of water and brine that are part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the mostly dry lakebed in Inyo County, California, on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
identified by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners as priority ecosystems. They include: Eagle Lake, Honey Lake, Mono Lake and Owens Lake in California; the Great Salt Lake and Sevier Lake in Utah; Carson Lake, Carson Sink, Franklin Lake, Pyramid...
October 9, 2022

Great Salt Lake sinking levels could impact bird migration

Birds use the Farmington Bay Area as one of several migratory areas for birds at the Great Salt Lake on Feb. 2, 2022. (Carter Williams/KSL)
of threshold where we’re going to have some difficulties.” Many of those other birds come from other saline lakes, like Mono Lake on the edge of the Sierra Nevadas in California. Levels at that lake have been dropping up for some time, meaning the birds...
April 13, 2022

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