Brine shrimp, the main food source for the thousands of birds that flock to Mono Lake to lay their eggs for the next generation. Most of the world's gulls get their start here!
Tours of Mono Lake are provided by Tom Crowe out of Tioga Lodge on Highway 395, just north of Lee Vining. You'll see the islands, bird nesting areas, tufas and lots of wildlife.
  Mono Lake and its surrounding watershed are unique. 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 and the Great Basin Desert.
In cooperation with Inyo National Forest