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Land Bridge:
Can you see a white expand between Black Point and Negit Island? Before the City of Los Angeles began diverting Mono Basin streams in 1941, nearly two miles of water separated Negit from the mainland. When Mono Lake's water level dropped below 6,377 feet, the land bridge was exposed allowing coyotes and other predators to reach the gull colonies during the nesting season. This stretch of lake bottom has been a source of dust storms during windy weather. In 1994, the State Water Resources Control Board decision mandated that Mono Lake would be managed at 6,392 feet, ultimately submerging this problematic stretch of old lake bottom. |