Wild Moon
Mesa
Web Site:
http://www.rusticranchretreats.com
Wild Moon Mesa -Artist
Retreat & Desert Hideaway
Joshua Tree
Casita On 5 Acres of Land + Studio + Workshop + Loft
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In The Mono Basin
A Rich Natural Community
In the middle distance there rests upon the desert plain what
appears
to be a wide sheet of burnished metal, so even and brilliant is its
surface.
It is Lake Mono.
Israel C. Russell
Quaternary History of the Mono Valley, 1889
Print out brochures about Mono Lake's natural history in English,
Spanish, French, or Italian!
Mono Lake and its surrounding watershed encompass a unique region in
California.
Sagebrush, Jeffrey pines, volcanoes, tufa towers, gulls, grebes,
brine shrimp, alkali flies, freshwater streams, and alkaline waters
comprise an unlikely world at the transition between the Sierra
Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin Desert. Pronghorn antelope
graze in the Bodie Hills while yellow-bellied Marmots bask in the
High Sierra summer sun. Great Basin spadefoot toads fill the evening
air with an endless chorus of croaking while Nighthawks hunt for
insects in the fading twilight. Trillions of brine shrimp eat and
mate beneath the briny waters of Mono Lake as Wilson's Phalaropes
feast on alkali flies in preparation for their non-stop flight to
South America. Embracing 14 different ecological zones, over 1000
plant species, and roughly 400 recorded vertebrate species within
its watershed, Mono Lake and its surrounding basin encompass one of
California's richest natural areas.
Wild Moon
Mesa
Web Site:
http://www.rusticranchretreats.com
Wild Moon Mesa -Artist
Retreat & Desert Hideaway
Joshua Tree
Casita On 5 Acres of Land + Studio + Workshop + Loft
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