Photo by Matteo Di Iorio on Unsplash Saved by a bucket, but can the Owens pupfish survive? The Owens pupfish, a small blue fish native to the springs in the California desert, was spared from extinction on an August afternoon in 1969 by Phil Pister and his two buckets.
Newsletter www.latimes.com A changing climate at Mono Lake could mean more dust storms in the Eastern Sierra - or less water for L.A. Climate change is bringing less snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains - and less snowmelt to Mono Lake.