{"id":96712,"date":"2025-07-07T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/mono-lake-could-be-losing-its-california-gulls\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:33:53","slug":"mono-lake-could-be-losing-its-california-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/mono-lake-could-be-losing-its-california-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mono Lake Could Be Losing Its California Gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The report attributed the low survival rate to the scarcity of the brine shrimp essential to the breeding gulls\u2019 diet. That scarcity, in turn, is the product of an unusual stratification of lake waters due to its artificially low levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen gulls are nesting, they really depend on the abundant shrimp,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThey basically gobble that up, and then they take it back to the nest and they regurgitate it for the chicks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nesting California gulls circle overhead during a nest survey conducted by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. (Beth LaBerge\/KQED)<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The gulls\u2019 reproductive crash is prompting calls for state water regulators to reconsider measures ordered more than three decades ago to restore Mono Lake\u2019s degraded ecosystems.<\/p>\n

In 1994, the state Water Resources Control Board issued a landmark decision<\/a> that was meant to halt a half-century of excessive water diversions from the eastern Sierra\u2019s Mono Lake and begin the long process of environmental recovery.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the order aimed to create the conditions that would allow the lake\u2019s water level to rise by about 17 feet \u2014 from 6,375 to 6,392 above sea level \u2014 to a point biologists testified would benefit key species.<\/p>\n

Recurring droughts and continuing diversions from the lake by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power have combined to keep Mono well below the target level. Its current surface elevation is 6,383 feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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