Tulare Lake, formerly the largest freshwater body west of the Mississippi River, has returned to California's San Joaquin Valley after unprecedented snowfall and storms flooded the region last spring.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineer John Ennis squats beside farmland where he and others are proposing to restore part of Tulare Lake. (Robert Gauthier / ...

Imagine waking up to find a massive lake where your farm used to be. That’s exactly what happened to farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley in 2023 when Tulare Lake suddenly came back to life.

Copies of photographs depicting Tache Yokuts Indians, homes, churches, artifacts, and ceremonies, as well as images of Marjorie Cummins interviewing Yokuts. The photographs were collected for Cummin's ...

The ongoing exploration of Kern County's Indigenous past continues this week with a presentation at Beale Memorial Library. Through this year's One Book Project selection, Deborah Jackson Taffa's ...

Part one. Sovereignty and the Yokuts tribes -- Introduction -- Early Yokuts strategies to protect land and sovereignty in central California -- Part two. United States v. Whaley (1888): tribal ...

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley. Now, a coalition ...

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley. Now, a coalition ...