U.S. Forest Service officials and volunteers found remnants of a large presence of wild horses — ones that typically range much farther east — that wintered around Mono Lake and left behind ...

The area east of the Sierra's is collectively known ... As the sea dried up, Mono Lake survived and a unique ecosystem developed around the brine shrimp that thrived in the water and attracted ...

Some 30 miles east of Yosemite Valley, vast amounts of Sierra Nevada snowmelt drain into Mono Lake, which is more than a ...

“Erratic winds caused the fire to grow quickly and spot across the east side of Highway 395,” fire officials ... 1,500 acres has closed Highway 395 from Lee Vining to north of Mono Lake. The Inn fire ...

That's one of many similarities between Mono Lake and the Great Salt Lake. Both are shadows of what they were as each serves as punctuation at the east and west ends of the Great Basin.

Some 30 miles east of Yosemite Valley, vast amounts of Sierra Nevada snowmelt drain into Mono Lake, which is more than a million years old. Twice as salty as the ocean because it has no outlet ...