The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the ice age. Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in ...

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 ...

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. [Image: David Rumsey Map Collection] Even ...

Tulare Lake may have continued to turn up blue on most maps but it was pretty much a mirage ... the footprint of the old lake bed stands out as a darker, grayish area in the patches of farmland.

Central California's Tulare ... dry lake that subsisted off minimal precipitation for several years on end, and the change happened fast. While satellite images from Feb. 1 show a lake bed barely ...

SACRAMENTO — California officials said Monday they believe tens of thousands of people living near an ancient freshwater lake bed are not ... first time in decades. Tulare Lake in California ...

The rumors were so rampant, that Kings County sent agricultural inspectors into the old Tulare Lake bed to see if the powerful J.G. Boswell Company was holding back flood waters in order to plant ...

Fortunately, the Tulare Lake area isn’t heavily populated. Most of the land in the lake bed is agricultural and owned by huge farming operations. The biggest community in the immediate basin ...

The city of McFarland and its 16,000 residents live near Poso Creek, upstream from the Tulare Lake bed. For decades, our community and others in the region have suffered from floods and been ...

The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the Ice Age. Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in ...