The series, “Pa’ashi (Tulare Lake) Past, Present and Future” kicks off on Thursday, Jan. 16 with retired College of Sequoias professor Rob Hansen.

The "ghost lake" in California's San Joaquin Valley has returned after 130 years. Tulare Lake is referred to as “Pa’ashi” by the Indigenous Tachi Yokut tribe, per Northeastern Global News.

A California "ghost lake" Tulare Lake that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland.

Tulare Lake was the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River up until the late 1800s when its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.