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  • A sandstorm caused by water diversions to Los Angeles.
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  • MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA. Salt resistent grass grows in alkaline soil by south shoreline tufa towers, photographed in 1988, when lake was near its lowest ebb due to Los Angeles water diversions. After a court ruling, diversions were reduced and these towers are now submerged again.
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  • MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA. Sunrise over south shoreline tufa towers, photographed in 1988, when lake was near its lowest ebb due to Los Angeles water diversions. After a court ruling, diversions were reduced and these towers are now submerged again.
    ML 1040.jpg
  • Dawn over yellow rabbitbrush and tufa towers.
    ML 1050.jpg
  • The Moon rises over the Inyo Mountains and normally dry Owens Lake at a rare time when there is enough water for a reflection.  Before diversion of the Owens River through aquaducts to Los Angeles, this was a large inland sea.
    OV 0139.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-035.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-056.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-036.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-033.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-023.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-016.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-051.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-022.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-057.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. In the foreground is a guard rail plastered with stickers, including one entitled  "Long Live Mono Lake," the motto of a long-standing environmental fight.  For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-031.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. This lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water diversions of inflowing streams, but due to a court order, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-048.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. This lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water diversions of inflowing streams, but due to a court order, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
    CAe 071207-046.jpg
  • Dawn light glows over California's Mono Lake and tufa towers that were exposed by Los Angeles water diversions (LA has subsequently refilled part of the water level.)
    ML 0624.jpg
  • The sun rises over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. Its survival has been threatened by water diversions from its inlets made by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.
    ML 1041.jpg
  • OWENS VALLEY, CA. Sandstorm from Owens Lake, Calif., caused by water diversions to Los Angeles, blasts a car and creates widespread air pollution.
    OV 0163.jpg
  • Alkali dust from dry Owens Lake (a consequence of Los Angeles water diversions) obscures the California's Owens Valley between the Sierra Nevada (background) and Inyo Mountains.
    OV 1540.jpg
  • Dust from dry Owens Lake blows 100's of miles due to LA water diversions, Sierra Nevada bkg.
    OV 4950.jpg
  • MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA. Sunrise & lenticular clouds over huge saline lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada that was source of controversy over Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of fresh water feeding the lake.
    ML 0330.jpg
  • MONO LAKE, CALIF., Rabbitbrush & tufa towers, made by springs now dry from Los Angeles water diversion.
    ML 0746.jpg
  • MONO LAKE, CALIF. Tufa towers made by springs, now dry & above water after Los Angeles water diversion.
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  • MONO LAKE, CALIF. Tufa towers made by springs, now dry & landlocked due to Los Angeles water diversion.
    ML 0103.jpg