July 24, 2008--A Mono Lake success story (L.A. Times)
Then he opened his palm and released her back to Rush Creek, a major tributary to Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra and the focus of an agonizingly complex and decades-long effort to heal a vast wilderness devastated by Los Angeles' insatiable thirst. Now, 14 years after the city was ordered to reduce the quantity of tributary water it had been diverting into the Los Angeles aqueduct since 1941, Rush Creek has among the highest concentrations of yellow warblers in California -- roughly three pairs per 2 1/2 acres.
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