Clear, cold water tumbles from snowcapped peaks and alpine fields at 13,000 ft (4,000 m) down the precipitous eastern escarpment of California's Sierra Nevada. The water feeds semi-arid, sagebrush–covered Mono Basin and, at the...

Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California, United States that is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species[1] and is an unusually productive...

Artists and birds have always seen the beauty in the harsh moonscape of Mono Lake. On placid days, Mono's glassy surface throws back mirror-sharp images of the snaggled, snowcapped Sierra Nevada to the west, black volcanic cones to the south, and gnarled white...

May, James Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 08-09-2000 Mono Lake Kutzadika: The odyssey of an ignored tribe By James May TODAY STAFF LEE VINING, Calif. - Going east from Yosemite National Park over the nearly 10,000 foot Tioga Pass, the...

Rescuers looking for adventurer Steve Fossett are scanning the desert for a tiny, aerobatic plane that's part of a stable of aircraft at a million-acre ranch owned by an heir of the Hilton hotel fortune.Once used to entertain high-rolling gamblers from Hilton casinos in Las...

The bad news is you aren't going to get the big forests of maple trees flanking church steeples and columned colonial-era mansions.This is California, after all, and not Vermont or New Hampshire.But the good news is you don't have to go all the way to...