Tulare Lake, often referred to as a “ghost lake,” began to dry up in the 1850s. The draining process was not a natural phenomenon but rather the result of deliberate human actions. Settlers ...

the lake started to dry up. Settlers wanted to use the land for farming, so irrigation canals and other systems were built to drain the lake. This drained Tulare Lake completely and turned the ...

That water was discharged into the dry lakebed of Tulare Lake, according to a letter from Sen. Alex Padilla to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. “This release is extremely concerning,” Cooley ...

into the dry lake bed of the Tulare basin, where it will be unavailable to farmers in the coming hot season.” Jay Lund, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Davis ...

According to a letter from Senator Alex Padilla, D-California, to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, all that water was discharged into the dry lakebed of Tulare Lake to be used for limited ...

None of the Kaweah River’s water was destined for elsewhere in California — in wet years it flows into the remnants of once-giant Tulare Lake, which has no outlet, and in dry ones the river ...

The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to release water from dams in the San Joaquin Valley is causing concern among regional ...