“‘You’re in it,” he would tell them. “You’re in Tulare Lake Basin right now because you’re looking at that map, which shows the lake here. There ain’t no water down here.

Austin, the author of “Floods and Droughts in the Tulare Lake Basin,” a book about the region. That summer, two men kayaked through the floodwaters from the banks of the Kern River just ...

An 1873 map of California showing the former boundaries ... many counties and flood control districts in the agriculture-dominated Tulare Lake basin declined to participate, denying themselves ...

Never mind that the map concludes to the contrary ... lands lying within the Tulare Lake, including the Kings River.” Why did Machado leave the Tulare Basin out? “You have some very ...

Screenshot of a map included in “Yokuts and Western ... author of “Floods and Droughts of the Tulare Lake Basin.”) Yet in some years the ground was so dry and rough the horses of explorers ...

A 1876 map of Tulare County shows a vast lake nearly ... water in Firebaugh to protect 100,000 acres of crops in the Tulare Lake Basin, you ain't seen nothing yet," said former Fresno County ...

(November 6, 2013. Alpaugh, California) A dry irrigation ditch on the edge of the historic Tulare Lake Basin in California’s Central Valley. Photograph by Matt Black.

Other state officials are already in the Tulare Lake basin. Brian Ferguson ... Resources has even created a Tulare Lake atlas — a map of how deep the lake is at different spots, in one-foot ...

According to the Boswell map, the Hansens’ land was in an area ... to expedite emergency flood preparation” in the Tulare Lake Basin. Mike Sullivan, assistant head of the technical services ...

Austin, author of “Floods and Droughts in the Tulare Lake Basin,” a book about the region. That summer, two men kayaked through the floodwaters from the banks of the Kern River just outside ...

Screenshot of a map included in “Yokuts and Western ... author of “Floods and Droughts of the Tulare Lake Basin.”) The lake was wide and relatively shallow and teemed with fish and shellfish ...