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  • Mt. Whitney and the Sierra Crest appear beneath an unnamed arch in the Alabama Foothills
    Mt. Whitney and the Sierra Crest app..ills
  • The Eastern Sierra and foothills as seen from Highway 395 in California
    Eastern Sierra
  • A heavy winter snowpack has melted beneath the Sierra sky and given way to streams dancing with runoff, creating an abundance of wildflowers. Here Lupine and Sulphur Buckwheat adorn a high pass in the Eastern Sierra.
    Lupine and Sulphur Buckwheat, Easter..erra
  • A heavy winter snowpack has melted beneath the Sierra sky and given way to streams dancing with runoff, creating an abundance of wildflowers.  Here Mules Ears adorn Monitor Pass in the Eastern Sierra.
    Mules Ears, Monitor Pass
  • Evening light reflects off a small tarn near the eastern end of Mono Lake's Navy Beach.
    Settling Storm, Mono Lake
  • A storm dropping snow on the distant Eastern Sierra and over Mono Lake descends on a late spring day.
    The Coming of Snow
  • Mobias Arch in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra as seen at 12:32am on an early summer's night.
    Mobias Arch
  • The Milky Way shines bright over Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra of California.
    Milky Way over Mono Lake
  • Sky Rock Petroglyphs, a secret slab, one of the few facing the heavens, is believed to be Paiute in origin.  Owens Valley, Eastern Sierra, California.
    Petroglyphs, Owens Valley
  • Bands of rain move over Mono Lake as seen from Warren Bench in the Eastern Sierra.
    Distant Rains, Mono Lake
  • Indian Paintbrush and Sulphur Buckwheat adorn the north shore of Mono Lake in California's Eastern Sierra.
    Wildflowers and Mono Lake
  • Sky Rock Petroglyphs, a secret slab, one of the few facing the heavens, is believed to be Paiute in origin.  Owens Valley, Eastern Sierra, California.
    Morning, Sky Rock
  • Mobias Arch and Late Light in the Alabama Foothills of the Eastern Sierra near Mt. Whitney
    Mobias Arch and Late Light
  • Sky Rock Petroglyphs, a secret slab, one of the few facing the heavens, is believed to be Paiute in origin.  Owens Valley, Eastern Sierra, California.
    Sky Rock Petroglyphs
  • Mono Lake is home to the second largest gull rookery for California Gulls in North America. Here the gulls are safe from land based predators. By early May they have scratched out a spot for the nest and lay black specked eggs. They feast on Mono Lake's brine shrimp and alkali flies and stay through Fall, when they head back across the Sierra to the California coast.
    California Gull, Mono Lake
  • A heavy winter snowpack has melted beneath the Sierra sky and given way to streams dancing with runoff, creating an abundance of wildflowers. Here in late June lilies adorn the Conway Ranch in the Mono Basin
    Lilies, Conway Ranch, Mono Basin
  • The Bristlecone Pine is considered to be the oldest living organism on earth, reaching ages that exceed 4,000 years.  Here an ancient tree stands in the Shulman Grove in the Sierra's White Mountains.
    Ancient Bristlecone Pine
  • Mobias Arch and the High Sierra, Alabama Hills
    Mobias Arch in the High Sierra
  • A pair of ravens sit on the top of dead tree along the shores of Mono Lake
    Ravens near Mono Lake
  • Ancient trees adorn the John Muir Trail between Dollar and Rae Lakes.
    Bristlecone Pines along the John Mui..rail
  • A heavy winter snowpack has melted beneath the Sierra sky and given way to streams dancing with runoff, creating an abundance of wildflowers.  Here lupine, sulphur buckwheat, mules ears, and indian paintbrush adorn a field near Monitor Pass.
    Wildflowers, Monitor Pass, Eastern S..erra
  • Evening light is reflected on the waters of Mono Lake from South Tufa
    Evening, South Tufa
  • A Jeffrey Pine stand sentinel over Jennie Lakes in the Jennie Lakes Wilderness in California.
    Jennie Lakes Wilderness
  • Mobias Arch in the Alabama Hills
    Mobias Arch, Alabama Hills
  • An Osprey brings a fish to a nest on Mono Lake. Osprey's mainly hunt fish but due to Mono Lake's alkalinity it contains no fish, yet they are safely protected from predator's by nesting on the exposed tufa towers. The Osprey's make a 6-25 mile round trip to catch their prey.
    Bringing Fish to the Nest
  • Mobias Arch beneath the Milky Way 12:57am
    Mobias Arch beneath the Milky Way, 1..57am
  • The full moon stands over Mono Lake
    Full Moon over Mono Lake
  • Morning dawns with a fresh coat of snow along the shores of Mono Lake, California
    Tufa in Snow
  • A cottonwood tree after a spring snowfall, Mono Lake
    Cottonwood after snowfall, Mono Lake
  • When the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power bought much of the land in the Owens Valley in Mono Basin, one family refused to sell. Their house still stands, perhaps as a proud testimony to the independent American spirit.
    Beneath Autumn Skies, an Abandoned H..rnia
  • Tufa is a type of limestone that is formed when calcium-rich spring water mixes with the carbonate-rich Mono Lake water and precipitates around the spring. The towers grow underneath the waters surface. These towers were exposed when the city of Los Angeles diverted four of the five streams flowing into Mono Lake.  Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake volume dropped by half, exposing nesting colonies of gulls to predation and again doubling the lakes salinity. The entire eco-system began to collapse. In response David Gaines formed the Mono Lake Committee, a citizens group that was formed to reverse this trend and save the lake. In 1994 the California Supreme Court mandated that the lake should rise to a level of 6,392 feet, which will partially restore the ecosystem and migratory bird habitat.<br />
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This image shows South Tufa beneath moonlight.
    Tufa and Casseopia
  • Mobias Arch and Mt. Whitney, A Classic View
    Mobias Arch and Mt. Whitney, A Class..View
  • Mobias Arch and Mt. Whitney at Dawn
    Mobias Arch and Mt. Whitney at Dawn
  • Mobias Arch beneath the Milky Way, 1:58am
    Mobias Arch beneath the Milky Way, 1..58am
  • Mobias Arch beneath a falling moon and Scorpio on a night in June.
    Mobias Arch beneath a falling moon a..rpio
  • Last Light, Mobias Arch
    Last Light, Mobias Arch
  • The soft light of evening falls on the Alabama Hills in California
    The Alabama Hills
  • The sun accents clouds on a morning at Mono Lake
    Morning at Mono Lake
  • An evening storm passes over Mono Lake, flashing a small rainbow
    Passing Storm, Mono Lake
  • The Bristlecone Pine trees are thought to be the oldest living organisms on earth, living to well over 4,000 years. Because the grow in dry soils and amidst cold winds they grow very slowly and the wood is extremely dense.  This image was made at dawn in the Patriarch Grove.
    Morning has broken, Patriarch Grove
  • The Bristlecone Pine trees are thought to be the oldest living organisms on earth, living to well over 4,000 years. Because the grow in dry soils and amidst cold winds they grow very slowly and the wood is extremely dense.  This image was made at dawn in the Patriarch Grove.
    Dawn in the Patriarch Grove, White M..ains
  • A Dappled Red Sky, Mono Lake
    A Dappled Red sky, Mono Lake
  • The Lee Vining Tigers take on the Round Mountain Knights at Lee Vining High School with Mono Lake as a backdrop on September3, 2011. Round Mountain won 50-8.
    Lee Vining vs. Round Mountain at Mon..Lake
  • A double rainbow appears after a summer thunderstorm over Mono Lake.
    Mono, After the Storm.
  • Tufa at Mono Lake, California
    Tufa
  • Mobias Arch at Sunrise
    Mobias Arch at Sunrise
  • Mobias Arch, Evening
    Mobias Arch, Evening
  • The night sky in the Alabama Hills
    Night Sky, Alabama Hills
  • Evening lights up Mono Lake
    Evenings at Mono Lake
  • Tufa is a type of limestone that is formed when calcium-rich spring water mixes with the carbonate-rich Mono Lake water and precipitates around the spring. The towers grow underneath the waters surface. These towers were exposed when the city of Los Angeles diverted four of the five streams flowing into Mono Lake.  Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake volume dropped by half, exposing nesting colonies of gulls to predation and again doubling the lakes salinity. The entire eco-system began to collapse. In response David Gaines formed the Mono Lake Committee, a citizens group that was formed to reverse this trend and save the lake. In 1994 the California Supreme Court mandated that the lake should rise to a level of 6,392 feet, which will partially restore the ecosystem and migratory bird habitat.  <br />
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In this photo tufa towers can be seen above and beneath the lakes surface. Those beneath the surface are growing once again as they exposed to the high carbonate water.
    Tufa Submerged
  • The Bristlecone Pine trees are thought to be the oldest living organisms on earth, living to well over 4,000 years. Because the grow in dry soils and amidst cold winds they grow very slowly and the wood is extremely dense. The oldest trees began to grow during the time of the Egyptian Pyramids. They are old like Methuselah.
    Old, like Methuselah
  • The Bristlecone Pine trees are thought to be the oldest living organisms on earth, living to well over 4,000 years. Because the grow in dry soils and amidst cold winds they grow very slowly and the wood is extremely dense. Here bristlecones line a ridge along the White Mountains overlooking the Owens Valley.
    Bristlecones and White Mountains
  • Tufa is a type of limestone that is formed when calcium-rich spring water mixes with the carbonate-rich Mono Lake water and precipitates around the spring. The towers grow underneath the waters surface. These towers were exposed when the city of Los Angeles diverted four of the five streams flowing into Mono Lake.  Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake volume dropped by half, exposing nesting colonies of gulls to predation and again doubling the lakes salinity. The entire eco-system began to collapse. In response David Gaines formed the Mono Lake Committee, a citizens group that was formed to reverse this trend and save the lake. In 1994 the California Supreme Court mandated that the lake should rise to a level of 6,392 feet, which will partially restore the ecosystem and migratory bird habitat.  In this photo tufa towers stand beneath Cassiopeia and the starry sky.
    South Tufa Beneath the Stars
  • Tufa is a type of limestone that is formed when calcium-rich spring water mixes with the carbonate-rich Mono Lake water and precipitates around the spring. The towers grow underneath the waters surface. These towers were exposed when the city of Los Angeles diverted four of the five streams flowing into Mono Lake.  Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake volume dropped by half, exposing nesting colonies of gulls to predation and again doubling the lakes salinity. The entire eco-system began to collapse. In response David Gaines formed the Mono Lake Committee, a citizens group that was formed to reverse this trend and save the lake. In 1994 the California Supreme Court mandated that the lake should rise to a level of 6,392 feet, which will partially restore the ecosystem and migratory bird habitat.<br />
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In this photograph, tufa towers are seen at dawn.
    Tufa Towers, Mono Lake
  • Tufa is a type of limestone that is formed when calcium-rich spring water mixes with the carbonate-rich Mono Lake water and precipitates around the spring. The towers grow underneath the waters surface. These towers were exposed when the city of Los Angeles diverted four of the five streams flowing into Mono Lake.  Deprived of its freshwater sources, the lake volume dropped by half, exposing nesting colonies of gulls to predation and again doubling the lakes salinity. The entire eco-system began to collapse. In response David Gaines formed the Mono Lake Committee, a citizens group that was formed to reverse this trend and save the lake. In 1994 the California Supreme Court mandated that the lake should rise to a level of 6,392 feet, which will partially restore the ecosystem and migratory bird habitat.<br />
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Sand Tufa is formed in more sandy regions of the lake near the shore. When the lake level dropped these tufa were exposed to the elements, the wind blew away the remaining sand, leaving these unique formations behind.
    Sand Tufa, Mono Lake
  • Sky Rock Petroglyphs, a secret slab, one of the few facing the heavens, is believed to be Paiute in origin.  Owens Valley, Eastern Sierra, California.
    Petroglyphs Facing the Heavens
  • Sky Rock Petroglyphs, a secret slab, one of the few facing the heavens, is believed to be Paiute in origin.  Owens Valley, Eastern Sierra, California.
    Sky Rock Dawn
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