With their usual regard for conservation and the environment, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP)continues to display their professional ineptitude and scandalous behavior. All efforts to protect and restore Mono Lake have been undermined by the DWP since they made a unilateral power-grab of lake monitoring operations and started diverting $10,000,000 in water per year. Everything the DWP is doing is directly in violation of the rules set in 1998 by the State Water Board.
Guess the DWP had to find SOME way to pay all those ridiculously high salaries, right?
From the post:
A May 13, 2013 report to the State Water Board revealed that the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) failed to keep its promise to monitor the health of Mono Lake. DWP unilaterally took over operations of the lake monitoring program in August 2012, displacing the independent expert scientists who had run the program for 30 years. Since then a litany of issues has ensued. As a result, critical data—such as the salinity of Mono Lake—are not being collected, and key portions of the data that are being gathered are not usable. These failures are violations of the rules set in 1998 by the State Water Board.
Al Golub Joins Faculty of Professional Photographers at YExplore and Will Lead Yosemite Photography Classes for Park Visitors
If you are interested in land management in California, I encourage you to visit (and join!) 
California’s largest-ever dam removal is set to begin in July. Officials are calling this the state’s largest dam removal project ever. Dismantling the 106-foot-tall concrete dam and reroute half a mile of the river is schedules to take three years.
The Wilderness Collective has posted a video from their recent motorcycle trip from Sequoia to Yosemite (WC-000).