A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

To the editor: With the reemergence of Tulare Lake, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to recapture and rebuild a critical water habitat and natural resource in California.

"Tulare Lake is playing Russian Roulette with flooding, and they just lost," said Deirdre Des Jardins, an independent researcher and consultant who has studied flood risk in the Central Valley.

Tulare Lake used to be one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River. However, for the past 100 or so years, it has been drained due to the rivers that feed it being dammed and ...

Tulare Lake flood will grow when Sierra Nevada snow melts. At Pine Flat Reservoir — the largest of the foothill lakes on the rivers feeding into the Tulare Lake basin — about 780,000 acre-feet ...

Tulare Lake may return after California’s record winter storms, giving farmers trouble, environmentalists hope and communities worry.

California was once home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, but Tulare Lake disappeared as water was diverted to irrigate crops. This year, however, the lake will once ...

Tulare Lake used to be the largest lake west of the Mississippi River. Farmers diverted the lake's water in the 1920s and replaced it with farmland. This year's rain and snowmelt have replenished ...

Tulare Lake flood will grow when Sierra Nevada snow melts. At Pine Flat Reservoir — the largest of the foothill lakes on the rivers feeding into the Tulare Lake basin — about 780,000 acre-feet ...

Tulare Lake, once a sprawling body of freshwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley, disappeared over a century ago, only to return in 2023, surprising locals and researchers alike. This once ...