NAME SOME PROMINENT TOWERS... around California, and your mind might go first to the gleaming skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles, and iconic Coit Tower in San Francisco, and the elegant and historic ...
On a walking tour at Mono Lake, visitors get a stark introduction to 80-plus years of Los Angeles’ water use. Interpretive signs stand among exposed tufa towers. They trace the lake’s decline, showing ...
Physical characteristics have always helped to define Pyramid Lake. In fact, the native Paiutes, who were the earliest settlers on the lake, originally called it "Cu Yui Pah" or lake of the cui ui ...
1 Blocks of tufa stone, ready for carving. Photo courtesy Thunderbird Supply Company, Gallup, N.M. 2 The artist draws a design onto a block of tufa, a porous volcanic stone found in New Mexico and ...