If you’ve driven U.S. 395 to Yosemite or Reno, Nev., you’ve zipped past Lee Vining, a hamlet of about 200 on the shores of Mono Lake. Like most outdoor enthusiasts who love the Eastern Sierra, I have ...

Having the best fishing line is often the most overlooked piece of the fishing-paraphernalia puzzle, yet, it’s definitely the most important item in any angler’s arsenal. After all, it’s the only ...

On a walking tour at Mono Lake, visitors get a stark introduction to 80-plus years of Los Angeles’ water use. Interpretive signs stand among exposed tufa towers. They trace the lake’s decline, showing ...

The canoe glided in the salty water of Mono Lake and floated through an otherworldly landscape of towering tufa outcroppings that look like castles made out of dripping mud. The water was clouded by ...

The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have long been a symbol of ...

Ryan Garrett, education director for the Mono Lake Committee, uses a nine-foot pole to show where the water level is supposed to be to protect the lake's health. At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush ...