Published in June, 1977, and edited by David Winkler for the Mono Basin Research Group, this study is now available in Adobe PDF format, with a special signature page and a note for the electronic edition. In addition you can find field notes, links to articles, photos from 1976, and photos from the 30-year reunion in July 2006.

Annual variation in numbers of breeding California Gulls at Mono Lake, California: The importance of natal philopatry and local and regional conditions
February 2006 by Peter H. Wrege, W. David Shuford, David W. Winkler, and Robert Jellison

Evaluation of Pinyon Removal Effects Typical of a Wildland-Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Project, Mono County, California: Avian Monitoring Component at Rancheria Gulch, 2005. By Colin Woolley and Sacha K. Heath, May 2006. PRBO contribution #1340. This report is linked from the "Current Research" page under "Prescribed Fire Studies".

The Starling Appears at Leevining, Mono County, California. 1948 by Elden H. Vestal

Annual compliance reporting binder that LADWP submits to the SWRCB. Contains results of monitoring for the previous year, including fisheries, vegetation, geomorphology, waterfowl, and limnology. Also contains operations plans for the current year. This is a very large download (280 MB) and is available from LADWP on CD.

May and June set records for the lowest average windspeed: 4.1 mph and 3.5 mph respectively (since 1998). July 2006 set a new record for the highest minimum temperature on record: 51 degrees (since 1990). August had the lowest maximum temperature since 1999: 84 degrees.

To protect endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep from deadly disease this summer, the U.S. Forest Service has wisely halted risky domestic sheep grazing in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in the eastern Sierra Nevada. The Mono Basin herd is expanding north into this area, just north of the Mono Basin.

Caltrans is proposing to install propane GAZEX exploders on "Lee Vining Hill" (Warren Bench) to be used during avalanche control operations. Currently a snowcat is driven to the locations and hand charges are thrown. The GAZEX exploders could be triggered remotely. This file shows the proposed locations of the exploders.

An overview of the Public Trust Doctrine and how it was used to save Mono Lake.

The goal of the Eastern Sierra Watershed Program is to familiarize students with their local streams by using hands-on science to determine the relative health of the ecosystem. This page contains a Flash movie, links to background on the program, and will soon have a link to a page where students can submit their data and see a data summary.

Geomorphology Studies, Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology graduate student, Sean Rovito, is doing a detailed study on Web-toed Salamanders in the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley.

Speciation in moths, Michael Collins. I have published both a Master's and PhD thesis on work with wild silk moths on Montior Pass and along the east slope. A hybrid zone exists on Monitor Pass between the Great Basin species Hyalophora gloveri (common around Mono Lake) and the West Coast H. euryalus. These are large and showy moths, making them excellent subjects for education programs. Monitor Pass represents a break in the high Sierra barrier between the two species, and gene flow from the West Coast species can measured in the Great Basin form, even as far south as Mono Lake - one more reason to protect the Mono Basin.

Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Indian Community Historical Research. Historical research concerning the Paiute people of Mono Lake, Hetch Hetchy, Mono and Inyo Counties and Yosemite. The focus is on the tribal affiliation of the Yosemite Indians and presents an alternative viewpoint to the conventional wisdom that they were Miwoks. The conventional wisdom can be found in most books and Websites. There is ongoing debate within the Indian Community on this point.

A link to "Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851, which led to that event" by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, Published: 3rd Edition, New York, Chicago, F. H. Revell Company, about 1892.