The Mono Lake Story

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 141

  • @haileeroxana
    @haileeroxana 3 года назад +47

    I’ve been to this lake before and I had no idea what kind of lake it was. I drove all the way from Yosemite to that lake in order to “swim”. Once I got there I saw no one swimming , but I still grabbed my beach towel and approached the water. As i got closed to the water this nasty horrible smell started hitting me, then as I got closer a bunch of flies were all over the shore of the water and started flying towards me. It was sooo disgusting. I ran back to my car and just stood there looking at the lake. It was definitely not what I was expecting, but as I looked at it I started admiring it’s components. It was a truly magical experience, that lake is beautiful in its own way. This lakes makes you feel like you are in a different planet, it is so mysterious.

    • @mtbalpinecounty
      @mtbalpinecounty 3 года назад

      Yes..

    • @JaylynAreizaga
      @JaylynAreizaga 3 года назад +2

      I was thinking of swimming there too, but I looked up this video to see how its like... ill leave it to the creatures to enjoy!!

    • @adolfosantana8038
      @adolfosantana8038 2 года назад +1

      Same thing happened to me at the Great Salt Lake, except I jumped in lol! Nothing like not being able to drown....or sink that is

    • @C4M3R4_10
      @C4M3R4_10 Год назад

      Those were Alkali Flies

  • @brianvirgin2995
    @brianvirgin2995 2 года назад +6

    The backside of the Sierras is the most Beautiful place on Earth. Mono Lake is a very special place. Take a slow drive up 395 sometime. If it's summer drive up to Tioga Pass. Just amazing. So it is of course worth preserving.

  • @bivbiv5757
    @bivbiv5757 3 года назад +22

    All Southern Californians should regard this most beautiful, generous, and resilient lake with more reverence, and be grateful for its life giving generosity!!... thank you so much for great documentary!👍🏽🏜

  • @jayabramson6702
    @jayabramson6702 Год назад +2

    I’ve been blessed to visit Mono Lake on several occasions, twice as part of dedicated photography trips. It is my favorite place on this earth. It is magical, desolate yet full of life; as if it were a lake on the moon.
    Amazing place. Great video! Was pleased to support the Mono Lake Comittee by yearly membership for a few years, and that’s with living in Florida. Long Live Mono Lake!

  • @denaebradburn1387
    @denaebradburn1387 10 дней назад +1

    This is a very educational and inspirational video. The videography is beautiful. The amazing work the people did to restore the lake was incredible. I wish there were more people like them in the world. If there had been back in the 70's (when corporations didn't have as much power legally as they do now) we wouldn't have crossed over that tipping point of climate change, not yet at least.
    It hurts to know that people are so disconnected from the environment that provides life to all of us. Greed and selfishness has destroyed so much natural beauty. I'm happy that one important ecosystem has been given a chance.

  • @safarial7208
    @safarial7208 Год назад +1

    Thank you for keeping this history alive. Our government can and will only do so much to save these precious places in the face of big money.

  • @jazarmstrong6467
    @jazarmstrong6467 6 лет назад +21

    Was just here today, in the amazing place where the Sierra Nevada meets the Great Basin, at Mono Lake.

  • @dkryb2422
    @dkryb2422 3 года назад +2

    Limey here, that was bloody great! Beautiful story, beautiful film. Thankyou and all power to you.

  • @jeffreygreer
    @jeffreygreer 5 лет назад +15

    i went here in 97 with friends everything about owens valley is beautiful, mono lake, alabama hills and the ghost towns, have not been back due to a massive stroke, camping at alabama hills and exploring all the ghost towns again someday is my main bucket list

    • @sam_s_
      @sam_s_ 4 года назад

      Are you doing ok?

    • @jeffreygreer
      @jeffreygreer 4 года назад

      @@sam_s_ yea i'm ok

    • @JJH-jc1fg
      @JJH-jc1fg 3 года назад +1

      @@jeffreygreer home you can make it back there soon 🤞🏼

  • @leggiemeggie5837
    @leggiemeggie5837 5 лет назад +16

    I remember going to Mono Lake for the first time on a college photography trip.. As we drove down the hill towards the lake I thought, "this is it?!?" 🤔 .. I was thinking why would we drive all the way here?!...whoa was I wrong!!!...it is absolutely incredible! Just so amazing and deserving of protection and admiration. I can't express how beautiful it was too photograph the tufa in the middle of the night with a countless number of stars in the sky... It's definitely worth a courteous visit. 😁👍

  • @erikak5494
    @erikak5494 6 лет назад +16

    Thank you for this video, I am a college student and I am going to share this story to my Ecology class

  • @virginiatyree6705
    @virginiatyree6705 Год назад +2

    Stunning images! The video is beautifully done. I'm glad the yt algorithm suggested your channel. It's wonderful that there's been so much rain and snow this year; 2023. Thanks for posting.

  • @xavierfumat7567
    @xavierfumat7567 2 года назад +1

    My wife and I and our dog drive by this lake from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe nearly every year! We have stopped shortly to see it and then moved on to our destination. Last time, we actually stopped and thought about making our next trip to this place! Week of October 10th we are visiting to learn and explore! We can not wait! Mono lake Story video is a great reminder to city people like us to help conserve! We are doing as much as we can even if it is minuscule in the grand scheme!

  • @deborahannehart6788
    @deborahannehart6788 3 года назад +9

    The orchestration for this video is as awesome as the story itself!

  • @westho7314
    @westho7314 2 года назад +2

    RIP & Thank you so much David Gaines, I remember those early days of saving Rush Creek, at that time my daughter was born when we were living in June Lake. All these decades later i now live on the shore of the dry Owens lake at Keeler beach, reflecting on the water that is no longer there. Being born down where the water now goes, yet ending up in my life at its source again is my own metaphor of life. Shundahai to all those who care..

  • @donnielee8556
    @donnielee8556 6 лет назад +15

    You all are awesome people. Thanks for protecting mother earth

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray 3 года назад +1

      Dad happened to be on that water board at the time, it was a major court victory to restore the inlets to Mono.

  • @stephengardiner9867
    @stephengardiner9867 2 года назад +2

    I live in Ontario, Canada but several years ago I visited this area. I didn't get to the tufas but spent a fine old time wandering Panum Crater. As a geology/vulcanology buff, this was amazing.

  • @speedspeed121
    @speedspeed121 4 года назад +7

    I was there last Summer and was supposed to go last Monday (but that didn't work out). It is such an interesting place. When the Sun goes down behind the Sierra's in the late afternoon, it feels so magical. I enjoyed it more than my first Yosemite trip the following day.
    Global conditions allowing, I will go after the last day of school in June (UC Davis).

  • @lee-kp4jn
    @lee-kp4jn 11 месяцев назад +1

    Is rainbow is real?
    Amazing!!!!
    Fantastic

  • @bradlyscotunes9156
    @bradlyscotunes9156 8 месяцев назад +1

    Trip between Tahoe & Mono is other-worldly in winter, also

  • @jeffreykreiley7265
    @jeffreykreiley7265 Год назад

    Beautifully done. Thankful this popped up on my feed.

  • @sallybeatty4150
    @sallybeatty4150 3 года назад +1

    My husband and I were there in 1995 beautiful, never seen so much snow in my life!

  • @patrickmayer9566
    @patrickmayer9566 3 года назад +2

    ,,,,,wow..............so cool.......................... SEA MONKEYS ? ? ? ................................

  • @OutSideDeMatrix
    @OutSideDeMatrix 5 лет назад +4

    Totally amazing and now i wanna visit for sure! This is how it gets done. Indigenous know the story - they have been on this continent for 1000s of years. thank you!

  • @dawgrules1
    @dawgrules1 9 месяцев назад

    Could the most well done piece I've ever seen on YT, thank you

  • @briseboy
    @briseboy 3 месяца назад

    By the way, Mono Lake smells FINE.
    I lived nearby for over15 years, knowing the entire creek network, swimming in that and every lake in the region, skiing, snowboarding, ( unfortunately having a hand in building some houses, which, when i realized what was being done, switched to solely repais!), some climbing, hiking, up most nearby mountains.
    Years later, when coming down from wilderness with the Wolf (who had tragically been born captive, and to whom i gave a decade of trying to give a life fulfilling for his species), we would encounter in Lee Vining and surrounds, people from around the world.
    The sole stench that occurs is from human perfumes, detectable from 100 meters and more along with cigarettes, same. The smells of life, death, nature, are not in the least offensive, especially when compared to the acquired odors humans put on themselves.
    The lake is magnificent in all seasons, and even the decrepit gold mining town of Bodie ( about 188_- 1930) ran ferries across the vaster lake to more easily access the Jeffrey Pine forest by the craters, and the shortened trail ( not having to top the 8000+ ft pass)
    The Mono Lake committee's efforts were the first onsite activists in memory, and aroused the support of so many in Mammoth and June area - they were the first environment group i ever supported, and did even inpire the efforts against the "ski circus" destruction of Sierra Nevada in the Mammoth and June Lakes area, now protected from it by wilderness designation of Upper Owens. Other recovery and prevention of destruction movements were informed and inspired by Mono Lake Committee work.
    So, not only the Mono Basin ( and the seasonally migratory Mono indians had netted and eaten those flies in recipes. Humans are descended from insectivores, and the peculiar rejection of nature found in some comments below are quite historically Unnatural, the theme underlying my entire comment.) but also both successful and unsuccessful work to preserve the entire Sierra region were inspired by MLC!
    ( i remember some visiting hollywood people, starlet saying "what's all this Momo Lake thing?" At least she asked)

  • @Mrbfgray
    @Mrbfgray 3 года назад +14

    Who knew a lake's entire ecosystem would depend on water! :D

    • @larryrobertson2150
      @larryrobertson2150 3 года назад

      Water becomes rain , rain becomes water.

    • @edzpaiva2695
      @edzpaiva2695 3 года назад +1

      🙄

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray Год назад

      Don't drink it, most bitter water I've ever tasted, not even salty just bad. (obviously it's extremely salty but not like concentrated seawater/table salt)

  • @atonaareyus
    @atonaareyus Год назад

    Very very sad 💔 I was there and it was about 40 years ago. Magnificent…

  • @richardbowers3647
    @richardbowers3647 3 года назад

    Saw it & re-saw it many times in the 1970s!!! Great viewing!!

  • @paulsmodels
    @paulsmodels 3 месяца назад

    Yes Mono Lake (mo-no, not mon-o) has been saved but only to a certain point. When I was a kid, back in the 50s, our family used to drive up 395 to go camping in Yosemite. I can remember seeing that lake completely full with boat docks, and sailboats out on the lake. It was a regular resort. Le Vining was a hopping little town. Over the years it got lower and lower and lower, and all the boat docks, resorts, sailboats were gone. The lake became a giant salt pond. I also remember Owens lake had water in it. Although the Mono Lake Committee has helped, it'll never be the same. Owens lake is a complete disaster! The entire L.A. basin is 10 times bigger, and more populated than when I was a kid growing up there. I live in N. CA now, and visit Mono Lake once in a while.

  • @theBeastcub
    @theBeastcub 4 года назад +4

    I am thankful for what was saved but furious for what was lost.

    • @Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it.
      @Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. 3 года назад

      How's about reducing the mosquito/ fly infestation , by reintroducing the Desert Pupfish ?
      There were fish there before , and there should be again . .🙂

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray 3 года назад

      @@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. I don't think they can live in Mono, can they?

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray 3 года назад +1

      Realize that LADWP bought up the land for the water rights thereby limiting the population of Owens Valley and preserving the rural way of life everyone there cherishes--it was and is: "Import the people or export the water." We'd rather export the water.

    • @Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it.
      @Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. 3 года назад +1

      @@Mrbfgray
      They live in much of Salt Creek and it's connected waters . They are already adapted to the conditions . .🙂
      *Salt Creek Pupfish were successfully introduced to Soda Lake in 1980 .

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray 3 года назад

      @@Prof.Megamind.thinks.about.it. Ahhh...thanks for the info. I remember them from my youth in the 1970's, one particular character in Bishop made it something of his life's work to save the pupfish.

  • @susanbuckley4153
    @susanbuckley4153 3 года назад

    Excellent video!! Thank you for sharing...

  • @audreya4075
    @audreya4075 5 лет назад +4

    I’m proud to be mono

  • @wowfrappesucksmadframing7151
    @wowfrappesucksmadframing7151 4 года назад +6

    my science teacher sent me here

  • @JohnFleshman
    @JohnFleshman 2 года назад

    I was just there today for the first time. The one thing I didnt expect was the smell to remind me so much of northern California beaches on the coast. lol. such a cool lake. I will be back to visit it again. only about 120 miles from home for me.

    • @JohnFleshman
      @JohnFleshman 2 года назад

      Between this video and my visit today I am inspired to go back with my camera and spend a full day or more just wandering around the area.

  • @derek20la
    @derek20la Год назад

    If visiting the Panum Crater, while turning onto the Mono Lake Basin Road off highway 395, set your radio to 93.7 FM to hear KSKS from Fresno knife-edge the signal over the Sierras.

  • @carolynallisee2463
    @carolynallisee2463 2 года назад

    This is a very good video, beautifully shot, and for me, just the right amount of narration. The topic was on point, too, with water supplies becoming a global as well as a local issue. We are still in the throes of changing our perception of natural resources, and how short sightedness and self-centeredness can cause so much damage to our environment. This was encapsulated in the clip of the old film about the aqueducts and Owens Lake, when the narrator blithely stated that the diverted water would otherwise be 'wasted' going to the lake. I guess that the thousands of birds living by this 'barren' lake didn't register on anyone's awareness until they had all gone, and the drained lake bed, which really is barren, was exposed...

  • @ZeroPointZap
    @ZeroPointZap 2 года назад

    Beautiful. Now let's restore Owen's Lake

    • @virginiatyree6705
      @virginiatyree6705 Год назад

      Owens Lake has been replenished in 2023 due to all the rain. Los Angeles still runs the water there. I'll have to read up on what the plan is. Cadillac Desert, a book, is a good read about the destruction of Owens Valleys. v

  • @masguapoako
    @masguapoako Год назад

    With the atmospheric river we got this year, hope it's gets the water it needs. Same with Owens Lake

  • @hmmok1329
    @hmmok1329 5 лет назад +3

    I've been here numerous time, but I've never viewed it as the narrator described it.

  • @PlumiePlume
    @PlumiePlume 4 года назад +19

    Was sent by my teacher...
    :/

  • @cowboygeologist7772
    @cowboygeologist7772 3 года назад +1

    Great video.

  • @CryptidWalks
    @CryptidWalks 3 года назад +2

    Cinderella, Don’t know what you got, till it’s gone was filmed here.
    Also, Clint Eastwood’s High plains drifter

    • @josephbingham1255
      @josephbingham1255 3 года назад

      I'm glad those red buildings are no longer there. I saw them when they were making that Eastwood movie. A very visual distraction from the beauty of the area.

  • @BettyCooper777
    @BettyCooper777 3 года назад

    This is an inspiring video. We visited Mono Lake a few years ago, the water seemed really low. When was this filmed?

  • @TheGrassdawg
    @TheGrassdawg 5 лет назад +1

    Well made and a well told story. Yes we can!

    • @larrysmith366
      @larrysmith366 4 года назад +1

      No it was not I had to do this for homework

  • @sapphirebradley-doyle3618
    @sapphirebradley-doyle3618 2 года назад

    Love learning

  • @alikhaled7845
    @alikhaled7845 2 года назад

    Amazing

  • @timcantrell9673
    @timcantrell9673 Год назад +1

    Mono Lake Story is totally sucess story

  • @michaelhusar3668
    @michaelhusar3668 3 года назад +2

    If LA doesn't have enough water, limit the number of residents there, don't destroy eco systems.

    • @the_faminist
      @the_faminist 2 года назад

      We tried to send illegals back but the Left wouldn't have it.

  • @ParqueNacionalChiloe
    @ParqueNacionalChiloe 6 лет назад +10

    I don't want too many people to come here. Because too many people may damage the ecological environment here.

  • @admintheparkapp6215
    @admintheparkapp6215 3 года назад

    this story can be applied to many different areas west of the continental divide, all its watersheds and most certainly the Colorado River and points further west and south

  • @montneymon-ta-knee6810
    @montneymon-ta-knee6810 3 года назад +1

    @ 9:50 there are 4 sasquatch can you find them

  • @SunWindWave
    @SunWindWave 3 года назад

    so inspiring, thanks.

  • @srdjanbasaric517
    @srdjanbasaric517 Год назад

    Is there any Stereo lake in US? :)

  • @Cam0lo
    @Cam0lo 4 года назад +4

    This was my science assignment
    :/

  • @bb-fe9ur
    @bb-fe9ur Год назад

    This lake was probably much different when Los Angeles water and power started taking 3/5 of all the water flowing into it.

  • @causeitsthere
    @causeitsthere 3 года назад +1

    i believe the water was almost up to the highway before the LAPWD bought the land for the water all the way down the owens river valley from ranchers in the 20's to get all that snow melt to LA.

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray 3 года назад

      Indeed--one of our fave Bishop high school bus drivers remembered diving right off the road into the water.

  • @Eventwow
    @Eventwow Год назад

    I’m glad this was made being born in mostly raised in bishop. I know what the water right wars are doing to the land.

  • @Elsanta666
    @Elsanta666 3 года назад

    Im assuming no camping or swimming here?

  • @keithcorrigan658
    @keithcorrigan658 3 года назад +1

    An uplifting story ! I salute those wise enough to work towards a better future for all Iife on earth !🙉🙊🙈👫🙋🌞🌞🌞🇨🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸🇮🇳🇬🇧

  • @steeledv
    @steeledv 3 года назад

    Jonah Matthewson is so damn good

  • @casienwhey
    @casienwhey 3 года назад

    Next project is to restore Owens Lake?

  • @troy204
    @troy204 3 года назад

    Who gave permission to those landowners to put up the locked gates on the Inyo National Forest dirt road #3N05 @ route 167 blocking my access to the public Mono lake ?

  • @mightyredstallion
    @mightyredstallion 4 года назад +1

    Would you rather send some of your water to Los Angeles, or have Los Angeles come to your water? That's the question posed around here whenever it's mentioned. Building the aqueduct has done more to preserve NorCal environments than can be quantified. Even now, the East Bay is channeling as much water down there as they can spare in hopes of slowing what is ultimately an inevitable destruction of the entire area.

    • @RedRose4141
      @RedRose4141 2 года назад

      L.A. he's devastated the state enough. Water conservation is very behind the times in California. Among a Zillion other serious issues most people are leaving in droves and over populating other states. So their population is going down in Cali. Unless they still keep allowing immigrants to keep moving there.

    • @cpcattin
      @cpcattin Год назад

      Cheer up dude !

  • @mikethierry725
    @mikethierry725 2 года назад

    My great grandfather owned that lake back in the . Halstead was his last name . He bought back from 2 main who had stopped to pick their car at his body shop in San Diego. He only had it for a few yrs ,and sold to 2 men from los Angeles for 15000$ which in the mid 30s was a fortune . He made a killing ,considering he bought the title for 5k. He sold because ,after taking the family up. To see the prop.granma told to " sell this god forsaken land " because there were a couple of old ramshackle shacks,and it kinda smelled she said and so that is the rest of story as they say!

  • @johnmedina5399
    @johnmedina5399 Год назад

    Please take this kind of fight to bring back owens lake.

  • @harperwelch5147
    @harperwelch5147 3 года назад

    Be nice to mention where this is without having to Google it.

    • @picklep9812
      @picklep9812 3 года назад

      It mentions it in the description

  • @saldada6928
    @saldada6928 3 года назад +1

    mono lake....home of the brine shrimp?

  • @Justslothin
    @Justslothin Год назад

    It’s not everybody’s flavor but I regard mono county and all it’s attributes as one the of the prettiest, most scenic areas on the west end half of the continent. My summer days off are mostly spent there in Bridgeport or thereabouts watching the monsoonal thunderstorms. It’s unfortunate that LA has and will continue to do its best to destroy the entire area because some geniuses decided to build a mega city the the desert southwest and haven’t done anything to address the water needs thereof. (Aka storage of rainfall)

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 3 года назад +1

    👍👍👍

  • @oscarmolinaoutdooradventur1648
    @oscarmolinaoutdooradventur1648 2 года назад

    👍🏼❤️❤️🥰

  • @sylvie9562
    @sylvie9562 3 года назад +2

    anyone else here from their teacher

  • @agator2660
    @agator2660 3 года назад

    If the flies and "shrimp" live off algae could we put these guys to work at places all over the world suffering from algae blooms?

  • @frenchpizza9725
    @frenchpizza9725 3 года назад

    One Father. One Mother. Sky World is dancing family of Mother Earth. You are loved by me. Animals. Water. Food. Souls. Be safe family

  • @mtebaldi1
    @mtebaldi1 Год назад

    This is so sad and a terrible disastrous human FUBAR. I've been to Mono & June Lakes several times just to see the beauty. What's being done to restore Mono Lake back to a natural beautiful natural wonder? Along that line what about Owens Valley.
    Why not divert water from the canals to Owens and Mono lakes. It wouldn't have to be permanent just to help the two lakes renew themselves. Desalination plants for LA to use and give water from the canals flowing from northern California.
    Just look what happened to The Sultan Sea. It was once a beautiful vacation spot back in the 50s/60s then destroyed by water diversion and used farming water pumped into it. It turned into a garbage pit, all recreation was stopped and now it's a waste pit. During its hay day, there was fishing, swimming, and water skiing. One of the fish was Tilapia all the fish were killed off by the water diversion and the agriculture slurry.

  • @tommy2pieceya734
    @tommy2pieceya734 2 года назад

    100%, unknown creature and is probably the same type of thing, taking children from places like Yellowstone and different national parks..

  • @NotGoodAtYoutube
    @NotGoodAtYoutube 4 года назад

    Hi

  • @mikegoettina
    @mikegoettina 4 года назад +1

    we need to stop all water going to LA from norcal let it dry up as la sucks

  • @bethchapman5205
    @bethchapman5205 Год назад

    Screw LA man get your own water

  • @andrewmcpherson1919
    @andrewmcpherson1919 5 лет назад

    Oh yeah oh yeah yeah yah yah oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah

  • @Unhinged-Cage
    @Unhinged-Cage 4 года назад +1

    POG i was here
    Edit: I'm back again
    Edit: I'm back again

  • @frangipanboo
    @frangipanboo 3 года назад

    So we saved seagulls & flies 😕. Two pretty annoying and disgusting creatures

  • @joeconrad9147
    @joeconrad9147 3 года назад

    Do a little critical thinking, let's see some credible photographs of mono lake before any water was diverted , a saltier than the sea tree less fly infested success story🤣🤣

  • @Loagun
    @Loagun Год назад

    Well really what they did was build a trench from up the mountain down to Los Angeles and let the water flow. Not exactly an aqueduct

  • @Loagun
    @Loagun Год назад

    It will be an ecological disaster when those volcanoes start going off.