FERC Licenses:

• Lee Vining Creek, 1997 | FERC order amending license 1997
• Rush Creek, 1997
• Mill Creek, 1999 | FERC ruling, 2007 | FERC order amending license, 2011

Land Management Plans, Planning Documents, and Planning Resources:

• CEQAnet - The searchable environmental database of the California State Clearinghouse within OPR. Contains info on environmental documents statewide since 1990. One example of a search you can do: find all environmental documents and notices submitted to OPR for review in Mono County in 2003.
• Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area Comprehensive Management Plan, 1989
• Mono County General Plan

Court Decisions and Decrees:

• California Water Rights Search Prototype - pilot phase covering water rights in the Mono Basin (100,000+ documents)
• 1914 Mill Creek Water Rights Decree (transcribed from original and original)
• 1935 City of Los Angeles v. Aitken
• 1983 California Supreme Court Public Trust Decision (National Audubon Society vs. Alpine County Superior Court)

Water Rights, Public Trust Doctrine, and Fish and Game Codes:

• California Water Rights Search Prototype - pilot phase covering water rights in the Mono Basin (100,000+ documents)
• Division of Water Rights Water Supply/Demand Visualization Tool
• In Law We Trust: Can Environmental Legislation Still Protect the Commons? (2005 article on the Public Trust by Mark Dowie)
• The Rebirth of California Fish & Game Code Section 5937: Water for Fish (2012 article by Bork, Krovoza, Katz, and Moyle)
• Water Resources, the Public Trust doctrine and Racanelli (2009 article by Felix E. Smith)
• Mono Lake at 20 Symposium, November 17, 2014: Webcast / Resources and Materials

State Water Resources Control Board Proceedings:

• California Water Rights Search Prototype - pilot phase covering water rights in the Mono Basin (100,000+ documents)

• Elden Vestal Deposition, Testimony, and Exhibits
  January 11, 1990 Deposition of Elden Vestal - Volume I (4.3 MB)
  March 1, 1990 Deposition of Elden Vestal - Volume II (5.1 MB)
  Deposition of Elden Vestal - Exhibits (25.1 MB)
  September 22, 1993 Caltrout Exhibit 5 - Testimony of Elden Vestal (12.3 MB)
  November 3, 1993 Deposition of Elden Vestal (2.7 MB) Video (Part I, 1 hour and 47 minutes)

• 1993-1994 Mono Basin Water Rights Hearings Transcripts

• 1994 Mono Lake Basin Water Right Decision 1631 HTML (595K) | PDF (17,028K)
  Decision and Order Amending Water Right Licenses to Establish Fishery Protection Flows in Streams Tributary to Mono Lake and to Protect Public Trust Resources at Mono Lake and in the Mono Lake Basin. September 28, 1994. State of California Water Resources Control Board. In relation to Water Right Licenses 10191 and 10192, Applications 8042 and 8043, City of Los Angeles, Licensee.

• 1997 Restoration Plan Hearing Transcripts

• 1997 Restoration Settlement - largely approved in Order 98-05

• 1998 Water Rights Order WR 98-05 PDF (6,200K) | HTML (192K)
  Order requiring stream and waterfowl habitat restoration measures. September 2, 1998. State of California Water Resources Control Board. In the Matter of Stream and Waterfowl Habitat Restoration Plans and Grant Lake Operations and Management Plan Submitted by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Pursuant to the Requirements of Water Right Decision 1631 (Water Right Licenses 10191 and 10192, Applications 8042 and 8043).

• DWP Exhibit 68B - approved in Order 98-07

• 1998 Water Rights Order WR 98-07 PDF (284K) | HTML (19K)
  Order amending provisions of order WR 98-05 applicable to stream restoration measures and dismissing petitions for reconsideration. November 19, 1998. State of California Water Resources Control Board. In the Matter of Stream and Waterfowl Habitat Restoration Plans and Grant Lake Operations and Management Plan Submitted by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Pursuant to the Requirements of Water Right Decision 1631 (Water Right Licenses 10191 and 10192, Applications 8042 and 8043). 

Michael F. Magliari Papers, 1980-1994 - A collection at the Water Resources Center Archives of legal documents pertaining to state-level Mono Lake legislation.

Petition to List the Mono Basin Area Sage Grouse - Endangered Species Act petition submitted November 10, 2005 by the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic on behalf of The Sagebrush Sea Campaign, Western Watersheds Project, Center for Biological Diversity, and Christians Caring for Creation