Events, News, and Updates
Recent and Upcoming Events
Presentations, book signings, and conferences
Date | Event | Details | Link text |
|---|---|---|---|
07/06/2026 | Mono Basin Historical Society | “Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin”. Book talk and signing at the Mono Lake Tribe and Lee Vining Community Center. | |
05/19/2026 | Mono Lake Committee | Book presentation and signing | |
11/01/2025 | Eastern Sierra History Conference | Lecture previewing Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin, Sierra Forever |
News & Updates
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin Now Available for Preorder
Robert B Marks' new book is now available for preorder through University of California Press. Official release date: May 2026. This sweeping 10,000-year history examines how natural forces and human actions shaped the Mono Lake Basin ecosystem.
Mono Lake Could Be Losing Its California Gulls
According to KQED, "Biologists with Point Blue Conservation Science said in their study of the gulls’ 2024 breeding season that although 20,000 breeding birds built roughly 10,000 nests at the lake, just 324 chicks survived."
Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
The City of Los Angeles may no longer need Mono Basin water.
With a newly expanded wastewater treatment plant, the President of the L.A. Board of Water and Power Commissions “said this will enable the city to stop taking water from Sierra streams that feed Mono Lake.”
LA City Council reaffirms support for Mono Lake
DWP misses the point, attempts to twist purpose of Mono Lake Day celebration
