Environment Nation Nation & World Weather Tulare Lake was drained off the map. Nature would like a word April 2, 2023 at 6:52 pm Updated April 2, 2023 at 7:44 pm ...

Within a matter of a few months, this winter’s series of atmospheric river storms that drenched central California and the spring snowmelt from the southern Sierra Nevada range are fueling the ...

Tulare Lake may return because of California’s storms by: Esteban Reynoso, Matthew Nobert Posted: Mar 28, 2023 / 12:12 PM PDT Updated: Apr 11, 2023 / 09:20 AM PDT ...

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 ...

Screenshot of a map included in “Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography I: Tulare Lake, Southern Valley, and Central Foothills Yokuts,” by anthropologist A.H. Gayton, published in 1948 by the ...

Lake Kaweah, behind Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River east of Visalia: 167,218 acre-feet, 90% of the lake’s capacity of 185,000 acre-feet and almost 375% of the average storage for the date.

While it's unclear how deep Tulare Lake is now, if it's similar to its former average depth of about 30 feet, that would translate to more than one trillion gallons of water that have flooded the ...

The Tulare Lake Basin covers about 10 percent of California, 16,400 square miles. About half of the area is below 500 feet in elevation, though the Kern River is fed from a slope of the 14,505 ...

In 1983, when a long-lasting snowmelt submerged about 130 square miles of the lake bed, the damage just in Kings County cost nearly $300 million in today’s dollars, and the water took two years ...