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The following description of Mono Lake is from Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia:
Mono Lake (/ˈmoʊnoʊ/ MOH-noh) is a large, shallow, saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has [...]
Responding to my two previous posts, a neighbor across the pond told me she’s unconcerned about the high water “because I don’t think it is high, especially not for early spring.” That begs the question. It’s not the high water per se that’s at issue; it’s the slow rate at which the high water recedes [...]
The water in the pond remains stubbornly high, almost as high as it was two weeks ago on March 9, when I wrote my first post on this subject. The Hardy Pond Slow Drainage Exhibit (pdf), at left, shows the small-scale flooding that now can result from just a [...]
Left: A view north toward Smith Point. Note trees in water. Middle: Southern shore of Smith Point, and Heron Rock. Bottom: View looking east from the center of Smith Point.
These photos of Smith Point were taken on March 8, 2011, a day after the winter’s snow finally melted. The massive melt, hastened [...]
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