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The New York Times2y
Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word.
Roads and farms are being flooded outside Corcoran, Calif., where the vast Tulare Lake once existed.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times Supported by By Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN4d
This Lake Disappeared 130 Years Ago—Now It’s Back, and Scientists Are Stunned
Tulare Lake, once a sprawling body of freshwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley, disappeared over a century ago, only to ...
Grist2y
The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley
An 1873 map of California showing the former boundaries of Tulare Lake. Early American settlers drained the lake and planted crops on the dried lake bed. David Rumsey Map Collection Even as flood ...
Los Angeles Times1y
Tulare Lake floodwaters now receding, Newsom’s office says. ‘We’ve turned a corner’
In a prepared statement released Wednesday, the governor’s office said that data and inundation maps collected and ... the return of California’s Tulare Lake, saying water should remain ...
Yahoo2y
Tulare Lake, drained decades ago, may return after California’s record-breaking storms
“Some of them are even rooting for nature to outflank man and see the old Tulare Lake alive again.” Screenshot of a map included in “Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography I: Tulare ...
Yahoo2y
‘It’s going to flood everywhere.’ Worries rise in Corcoran as once-dry Tulare Lake refills | Opinion
“Tulare Lake Dries Up: Disappearance of the Largest Body of Fresh Water in California.” The article includes a map showing the lake’s shrinking shoreline over the decades, starting in 185 ...
Republican Herald2y
Tulare Lake was drained off the map. Nature would like a word.
Still, even longtime residents have been staggered this year by the brute swiftness with which Tulare Lake has resurfaced: In less than three weeks, a parched expanse of 30 square miles has been ...
Seattle Times2y
Tulare Lake was drained off the map. Nature would like a word
Still, even longtime residents have been staggered this year by the brute swiftness with which Tulare Lake has resurfaced: In less than three weeks, a parched expanse of 30 square miles has been ...