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.

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

Starting in the 1860s, irrigation districts began constructing levees, canals and dams to divert water from Tulare Lake for agriculture. By 1900, the lake essentially disappeared, but would reform ...

Lake Isabella, behind Isabella Dam on the Kern River northeast of Bakersfield: 360,237 acre-feet, 63% of the lake’s capacity of 568,000 acre-feet and almost 200% of the average storage for the date.

Since then, Tulare Lake has periodically reappeared when the amount of water overwhelmed the ability of landowners to prevent it from flooding their fields. It happened in 1983 when a massive snow ...

To the editor: With the reemergence of Tulare Lake, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to recapture and rebuild a critical water habitat and natural resource in California.

Tulare Lake now has more water than some California reservoirs. Efforts made to slow flow By Tim Sheehan May 22, 2023 7:08 PM ORDER REPRINT → ...

Starting in the 1860s, irrigation districts began constructing levees, canals and dams to divert water from Tulare Lake for agriculture. By 1900, the lake essentially disappeared, but would reform ...