The lake, which is known by the name ‘Pa’ashi’ by the indigenous Tachi Yokut tribe, was made up of mainly snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains, rather than rainfall.
Freso, which is a town that was previously on the edge of the lake, receives just 10mm of rainfall per year.“Now the valley is crisscrossed by hundreds of irrigation canals, all of which were originally built to take that lake water and put it onto irrigated fields,” she added.“California just got inundated with snow in the winter and then rain in the spring,” Underhill explained.The combination of these events means that all the water collated in the depression where Tulare Lake once existed.
“They’ve been holding ceremonies on the side of the lake. They’ve been able to practice their traditional hunting and fishing practices again.” For homeowners and farmers on the land, though, the lake’s return had devastating effects, with many losing their homes due to the flooding.“Under climate change,” Underhill says, “floods of this magnitude or higher will happen with increasing frequency.”
“At a certain point, I think it would behove the state of California to realise that Tulare Lake wants to remain. And in fact, there’s a lot of economic benefit that could be gained from letting it remain.”reports that as of 14 March the lake is nearly gone, with “sprouts of grass and thick mud, but no signs of the body of water.”“It happened in the ’80s, it happened once in the ’60s, a couple of times in the ’30s,” Underhill explained.
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