A California “ghost lake” that disappeared in the 19th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland. The Tulare Lake in ...

The company, which controls the El Rico Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA), still plans to allow so much groundwater ...

A proposal aims to restore part of Tulare Lake in California’s San Joaquin Valley by creating a reservoir and wetlands on 24,000 acres of farmland. The project would capture floodwaters, ...

Located in the San Joaquin Valley in California, Tulare Lake was once a large body of water that spanned over 100 miles long and 30 miles wide. When speaking to Northeastern Global News, ...

Since then, the dry lake has come back to life occasionally during California’s wettest years. In 2023, surging floodwaters inundated thousands of acres of farmland .

People look at a full pool of water behind Schafer Dam forming Lake Success on the Tule River in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County east of Porterville, Calif., in March ...

Tulare Lake in California’s Central Valley came back to life after major rains in 2023. The San Joaquin tiger beetle is native to the alkali meadows that once formed at its northeastern edge.

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago ... Since then, the dry lake has come back to life occasionally during California’s wettest years. In 2023, surging floodwaters inundated ...