NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY et al., Petitioners,
v.
THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALPINE COUNTY, Respondent; DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Real Parties in Interest.
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February 17, 1983.
February 17, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
F. Bruce Dodge, Morrison & Foerster, Sanford M. Skaggs, Palmer Brown Madden, Marie P. Rivera and Van Voorhis & Skaggs for Petitioners.
Antonio Rossmann, Muenzberg & Thomson, James S. Thomson, Robin G. Pulich, Greene, Kelley & Tobriner, Frank A. Lowe, E. Clement Shute, Jr., and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.
No appearance for Respondent.
Adolph Moskovitz, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Ira Reiner, City Attorney, Edward C. Farrell, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Kenneth W. Downey, Assistant City Attorney, George Deukmejian, John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, R.H. Connett, N. Gregory Taylor, Assistant Attorneys General, Roderick E. Walston, Gregory K. Wilkinson, Jan S. Stevens, Dennis M. Eagan, M. Anne Jennings, Clifford T. Lee and Bruce S. Flushman, Deputy Attorneys General, John R. Bury, Tom P. Gilfoy, Philip Walsh, Jennifer Moran, Elizabeth J. Bigman, Carol E. Dinkins, United States Assistant Attorney General, Donald B. Ayer and Francis M. Goldsberry II, United States Attorneys, Stuart L. Somach and Mary Beth Uitti, Assistant United States Attorneys, Jacques B. Gelin, Richard J. Lazarus, Arthur L. Littleworth, Richard T. Anderson, Best, Best & Krieger for Real Parties in Interest.
Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Anne J. Schneider, DeBlanc & Alexander and Anthony E. Alexander as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.
George Agnost, City Attorney (San Francisco), McMorris M. Dow, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Brian E. Gray and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak as Amici Curiae.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
BROUSSARD, J.
Mono Lake, the second largest lake in California, sits at the base of the Sierra Nevada escarpment near the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park. The lake is saline; it contains no fish but supports a large population of brine shrimp which feed vast numbers of nesting and migratory birds. Islands in the lake protect a large breeding colony of California gulls, and the lake itself serves as a haven on the...
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