The Mono Basin is an endorheic basin located East of Yosemite National Park in California, United States. It is bordered to the West by the Sierra Nevada, to the East by the Cowtrack Mountains, to the North by the Bodie Hills, and to the South by the North ridge of the Long Valley Caldera. The shores of Lake Hart, an endorheic desert lake in South Australia In geography, an endorheic basin is a watershed from which there is no outflow of water (either on the surface as rivers, or underground by flow or diffusion through rock or permeable material). ... Yosemite National Park (pron. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... Sierra Nevada, meaning snowy range in Spanish, is the name of at least two mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada (Spain) in Andalusia, Spain Sierra Nevada (US) in California and Nevada, United States Sierra Nevada (Mexico) in Mexico There are also two single mountains named Sierra Nevada in the Andes which are... Long Valley Caldera is a depression in eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. ...
Principal features of the Basin include Mono Lake, the Mono-Inyo Craters, the Aeolian Buttes, and the town of Lee Vining, CA. Mono Lake, showing nearby Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California, United States that is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species and is one of the most productive ecosystems in North America. ... One of the Mono craters: an excellent example of a rhyolite dome. ...
The Mono Lake Committee wishes her congratulations and the best in her ongoing work guiding California to a sustainable water future.
Mono Lake is featured under "Saline Lakes." Mono Lake has a pH of 10 and a salinity more than double that of the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks to Mono Lake supporters, the EPA heard loud and clear that the severe air pollution problem at Mono Lake MUST remain subject to federal regulations.
Enough water was diverted that evaporation soon exceeded inflow and the lake level fell rapidly, exposing alkaline sands and once-submerged tufa towers, and turning Negit Island into a peninsula, exposing the nests of gulls to coyotes and forcing them to abandon the island.
Mono Lake was spared the same fate on September 28, 1994, when the California State Water Resources Control Board issued an order to protect Mono Lake and its tributary streams.
Mono Lake is a vital resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds and has been recognized as an International Reserve in the Western Hemisphere Reserve Network.
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