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Map Satellite These small ponds, which are situated in the sagebrush flats several hundred meters north of the shoreline of Mono Lake, are an important source of fresh water for the birds inhabiting Mono Lake. California gulls, Larus californicus, and northern phalaropes, Lobipes lobatus, regularly use these ponds for bathing and drinking. A number of other species have also been observed here.
One of the ponds is primarily open water; the others support varying amounts of freshwater marsh. Vegetation includes Scirpus sp., as well as some willow, Salix sp., thicket.
Integrity: The ponds are artificial, There is grazing in the area.
Use: Private
December 1979
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman
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