See, this is what the right-wing corporate polluting neocons.....

[GreenTea]

just don't understand, they will ignore it, they will exploit it and they just don't give a shit because it interrupts their profit margin and they say fuck it. - But then in the end they love to take credit for it and say, see what we did, when in truth they fight stuff like this constantly...

Can you imagine a Rush Limbaugh caring about anything like this now or 30 years ago? Or would he be calling them "environmental wackos"?

Just like he does to the many who want to develop alternative energy sources...the regressives only care about profits, not the pollution, environmental impact, nor the outcome and are so worried, alternative energy might take away from the economy (their profits), instead of realizing & caring that's it'll be creating many new jobs, cleaner industries and businesses and a healthier environment!!!

IT'S RISING AND HEALTHY: Three decades ago, a bunch of college students reported on and worried about the fate of Mono Lake. This month, they celebrated its recovery.

(07-29) 04:00 PDT Mono Lake, Mono County-- Thirty years ago, a dozen students from Stanford University, UC Davis and elsewhere camped at ancient Mono Lake for more than two months, conducting the first ecological survey of California's largest lake, which was dying as a result of massive water diversions to Los Angeles.

This month, the same group -- now college professors, government scientists, an inventor, a physician and high school teachers, all in their early 50s -- returned for a historic reunion at the million-year-old lake that once inspired Californians to slap "Save Mono Lake'' bumper stickers on their '70s vans.

Today the lake is saved -- rising and healthy.

The group's 1976 study of birds, insects, phytoplankton, salinity and hydrology has been recognized as the scientific underpinning of the California Supreme Court's 1983 ruling that the state must protect natural resources such as Mono Lake under the state Constitution's public trust doctrine. That decision ultimately saved the lake from the kind of water grab that in the 1920s turned Southern California's Owens Lake into a 110-square-mile salt flat.

"Everything we did was later repeated with more rigor,'' said Jeff Burch, an engineer and inventor for Agilent Technologies in Palo Alto, who came to the reunion at Mono Lake County Park. "But we pointed to the direction that policy needed to change or otherwise you'd have this train wreck, with the Mono Lake ecosystem collapsing.''

It had been 30 years since Burch saw Connie Lovejoy, then a UC Davis student and now a biology professor at LaVal University in Quebec City, Quebec. Back then, she was commanding him to pull up algae samples as they teetered in a small boat rocking on the lake amid its famous limestone towers. Lovejoy, with her college colleague Gayle Dana, now a hydrology professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, conducted the water chemistry and biology studies of the lake.

David Winkler, now a biology professor at Cornell University, hadn't seen Bob Loeffler since Winkler was counting birds in the sagebrush 30 years ago and Loeffler strode by on his way to complete calculations on groundwater levels around the Mono Lake Basin. Winkler edited the final report of the 1976 research, for which he directed the bird study. Loeffler, then at Stanford and now director of the mining, land and water division in the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, measured groundwater, river flow and evaporation.

Two weeks ago, the group returned to celebrate saving the world wonder. They found a thriving 60-square-mile lake freshened by a record amount of winter and spring runoff from the tributary creeks.

The lake is teeming with brine shrimp and alkali flies that feed the birds. Bright green native grasses grow right down to the lake, now large enough to cover the once-exposed lake bottom.

(Much more...)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/29/MNGD5K7V581.DTL

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Cool!

[LaPera]

2. Extremely COOL!

[glitch]

3. Fantastic victory! Thanks for posting. This is a wonderful place.

Edit: and you are correct, they'll never get it. K & R

[GreenTea]

4. "Save Mono Lake" I went there twenty plus years ago, and it was sad....

I too had a "Save Mono Lake" sticker on my truck, was aware, donated, moved on and I'd had forgotten---I'm blown away, what dedication can accomplish!

While the corporate system discourages one - from thinking or doing something, anything at every turn!!!

Forget it, nothing can be done, we'll just build some money making Condo's there.

[glitch]

5. That's a devastating but still beautiful picture.

I took a lot of pictures there too, but none of them did justice to the lake and the surrounding countryside.