TY - JOUR AU - Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. TI - Sidebar: Mono Lake compromise: A model for conflict resolution JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1995/11/01 VL - 49 IS - 6 SP - 15 EP - 16 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3733/ca.v049n06p15 L3 - 10.3733/ca.v049n06p15 AB - Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows: Mono Lake is a unique natural resource in California and the rest of the world. The lake evolved as a hydrologically closed basin, having no ocean outlet. Estimated to be 1 million years old, it is a remnant of the much larger ice-age Lake Russell. Lake Russell created a series of linked ecosystems: saline lake waters linked to hot and cold springs, fringing wetlands, riparian corridors and terrestrial uplands. Such a series of ecosystems is found nowhere else in the world. The unique ecology of this lake has been greatly threatened in this century by the development of California's water resources.