This is primarily a website established by the Mono Lake Committee to aid in its ongoing quest to protect and help recover Mono Lake in California. Mono Lake is an extensive saline lake in the Eastern Sierra region of California. Although probably of most use to Californian and western individuals, there are sufficient teacher curricula aids and web links to informative sites to make it useful to anyone. The site is a very user friendly one. The links work well and contain a considerable amount of sources. The main site contains information on membership enrollment, goals of the committee, a tour of the lake, natural history of the lake, political history, environmental aspects, and other information. Want to know what Tufa is? After reading the main background information and visiting all the links, you will be an authority on this unique limestone formation. (There is humor in this site
Of interest to teachers and students would be the natural history of the lake, with information on its geology, chemistry, biology, etc. For teachers interested in environmental programs, the descriptions of the committee's programs (canoe trails, field programs, school activities) will be very helpful. In the Natural History section, there is a nice metric to English conversion table, including a note that the data is good only to 5 significant figures! If I had a student interested in doing a paper or project on saline lakes this would be one of the first sites I would suggest visiting.
