This is a perfect example of "shifting baseline syndrome"... that people think the environment we have today is "normal", but that's only because they have no experience of nature prior to development. The draining of Tulare lake is something most Californians probably know nothing about, but without the lake the San Joaquin Valley is significantly environmentally degraded compared to what it used to be.
I wonder how many people driving to Black Rock desert know lake winemucca was 60 feet deep before Derby Dam was built to divert Truckee river water out to Fallon to grow melons and alfalfa. It finished drying out in the 30s
@@travisashley2605 it would be GREAT to let the lake return. Some cotton agriculture is a small loss compared to a vibrant water thriving ecosystem!! Native Californians see unite in kicking out agribusiness and welcoming back native animals and plants.
I’m heartened by these comments. It will be economically difficult times ahead as the lake takes farmland, but the removal of the lake no doubt reduced our water storage capabilities. It seems that farming itself caused the water loss problem, ironically.
sadly once it dries up again itll just be back to business as usual unless theres some sort of legislation to get it protected and to keep it around. timeframe for it drying up is apparantely september
@@RiseOfAnarchism That's if the state agrees to pump it on the taxpayer's dime again. We can just refuse! The farmers are very likely the "personal responsibility" types. So let then take this personal responsibility without dipping into my tax money. I prefer the lake to stay exactly where it is and where mother nature intended it! The Boswell cotton farming corporation can go pound sand on a newly refilled Lake Tulare beach.
If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas. Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater. Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures. Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs. These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
If they just switch to a rice crop - everyone can be happy. Rice fields are symbiotic with California's valleys. The valley (entire valley!) is supposed to be flooded in wet years. Rice crops are the closest thing resembling that ancient landscape. (Rice fields are flooded much of the year, providing critical habitat to migratory birds, and other species.) Manage the land like they do in the North of the State - keep a wetland buffer around the rice crops, and let the water soak in. ENJOY the floods, instead of fearing them. Keep them beneficial, with canal systems and locks. (For both Man and Beast, as they used to say.)
I grew up in Goshen CA, and I remember my grandparents telling us stories about how Goshen was a junction for passenger boats traveling and stopping there, Goshen was like a small oasis
If there was an effort to strategically incorporate tap rooted (include natives) that pollinate by air, you can do a lot to restore aquifers, water tables. Trees can protect the moisture on hills while also stabilizing them. Tree/plant diversity matters as that helps the soil biota also. Much has been learned about soil biota recently and its more than just stuff eating what falls to the ground. Healthy soil biota moves nutrients and moisture, corrects soil texture, creates soil aggregates through natural glues, deepens fertility, sequesters carbon, creates soil, etc. Livestock can also create a positive role in management by controlling weeds and pests and adding fertility while preventing oxidation of dead plant material. They key is to prevent overgrazing, and instead use mob grazing Overgrazing destroys soil biota, exposes I to drying and solarization, as well as reduce plant roots' ability to regenerate more biomass, aka food/livestock feed. Other benefits of diverse pasture mob grazing ensures livestock are eating only the nutritious parts of the plants, stems produce hardly any calories or nutrition and therefore makes them more reliant on methane-producing bacteria to extract food value. Animals that are mob-grazed are much healthier need less medical interventions, and in turn peoduce healthier products that have better fats, more omega 3s, etc. Make sure soil is always covered with living plant material is important in supporting healthy soil biota. Soil biota needs a wider diversity of plants and depend on the diverse plant exudates to then make all the good things they do. Avoiding tillage/plowing/fallow practices, monocropping and chemical ag practices also adds to food resiliency especially for smaller, family-owned farms as they can produce more quality and building personal resiliency. All these things work in concert to maintain positive hydrology cycles...
I was born in Bakersfield. Bring back the lake. Use it for recreation, and agriculture, and any other business, equally. Build up the sides in order to control the flooding. Oh. And no politicians get the shoreline for themselves.
I suppose there is no irony in the fact that parts of King County are now reflooding due to the exceptionally wet winter the central part of CA has experienced. Thank you for this historical footage.
@@ahigatso2442 Those are almost all cotton farms. Besides, almost all of our state's agriculture is for export. We could reduce our agriculture to 1/20th it is now and we'd still be a top 10 food exporter in the world!
If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas. Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater. Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures. Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs. These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
The lake should be restored to its original state. We need to stop greedy people from exploiting nature and adversely altering it in order to make money.
It would involve shutting down a $25 billion ag industry, relocating about 50,000 people, and essentially redoing a couple of hundred miles of state highway that would be underwater. Of course, you're willing to pay your share of doing that, right?
@@almostfm we do everyday, its called tax payers dollars. You can easily take some of the billions from the military budget wouldnt be a thing. Or you could hold JG boswell company accountable for corruption and paying off the government to build levies etc cause a ecological disaster that we see happen every year. An use that to move everyone out and restore what would be a huge improvement to california. Imagine having regular rain fall again, snow fall in the mountains. Just all around a better environment thats supposed to be there.
@@almostfm Portions of Hwy 41 between Kettleman City and Stratford, Hwy 43 between Corcoran and Wasco, and I-5 south of Kettleman past the point where it passes the Kern National Wildlife Refuge on its way to Hwy 46 near Lost Hills would probably all have to be rerouted to make room for where the lake was. But that raises another question: if we were to allow the Tulare Lake basin to be refilled to its original depth, what was that depth? 25 feet? A hundred? You could put boats on it, but just how deep was it? Does anyone know? Did anyone measure it before cutting off the rivers that fed it?
Tulare Lake is a saline evaporation basin. It is now heavily polluted with industrial farm run-off from decades of modern farming. See also the corruption of the Westlands Water District that benefited from the water that would have maintained the lake.
@@ericmaclaurin8525 yes. theyre the reason were in the mess were in. look at who has opposed most legislation for preserving water because it would cut into their profits to lose acreage. companies only care about one thing, increasing year over year profits. they dont care about how they do it or what harm it does. look at the situation in ohio that is still underway and how the train company cut as much cost as possible to maximize theri profits until they caused a disaster that decimated an entire town and their proposed solution was pay off the town of 5,000 people with a whole 25,000$ check. thats only FIVE dollars per person. thats how much they value human life and the environment
If Tulare lake was dug deeper, and allowed to refill, we'd solve the water storage problem. California has always had a volatile water cycle. Dozens of very dry years create drought conditions, followed by wet years, full of flooding. A Tulare Lake dug deeper would allow the wet years to deposit large volumes of water to store for the dry years, not to mention the benefit to wild-life, a slightly cooler local area, local tourism increasing, and so many other benefits.
The government couldn't charge outrageous prices for water if its readily available.... They have to create a problem and then have people suffer and then tell you they can fix the problem but it will cost just a little bit more and then triple the cost and blame it on you... sound familiar
They drained away Lake Tulare much like they did to the Aral Sea in Russia, for agribusiness. Just another example of mankind's disregard for nature. Nature wins in the end. Sorry for the people who unknowingly built their homes/farms on a lakebed.
Let the Tulare Lake restored; I am not sure who the heck allowed the lake to be drained in the first place. Anyone with any common sense will know it is a terrible idea.
Seems like a great place for a natural reservoir for water storage which we need so badly. Sounds like a few wealthy land owners standing in the way of a greater good for rhe whole community.
It's better if you store water in the ground itself. Soil has incredible water holding capacity. If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas. Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater. Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures. Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs. These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
Canada sadly did the same thing to Lake Sumas on the west coast. When the river that once fed it broke through a levee and caused flooding, the MSM didn’t want to mention it was once a lake. They tried to push the climate change thing.
@@doneown503 I mean there are a few crises that could take place a disrupt our little delicate society. One solar flare all electronics on earth break, one asteroid could send us into a week of darkness under an ash cloud, global warming slowly rises our sea and dry’s our land, any moment we could break out into nuclear war, pandemics, oh and volcanoes
Doesn't change the fact that the greenhouse gas effect is rapidly heating this planet at an unprecedented scale. "Don't underestimate the power of denial" - American Beauty
The bigger problem is that after draining the lake they drill under the lakebed to drain the aquifer at it's lowest point. You get some nice occasionally flooded farmland but dump all of that water into the ocean instead of forcing it through aquifers and the atmosphere to untold millions of acres. It's completely insane. We build and rebuild canals that effectively destroy the natural underground canals and lakes that held much more than the reservoir system.
Actually, as the lowest point (in most years), the water contains only silt and clay, forming the lake bed. Its clay mostly, and water wells aren't common out there. Oil wells drilled near Kettleman City showed this to 1,000s of feet.
Yes of course dump it! Rivers need the flow and need to be naturally simulated (i.e. more flow in rainy season). Education about modern water management in the media is very lacking, to fill said aquafers effectively needs vast amounts of certain land to make recharge basins, almost all of it being privately owned. And correct, it needs to be HIGHLY forced and at massive quantities, meaning a huge amount of power, I would like to know what your plan is on how you would set up all of this power infrastructure that is needed (where is freely available land, resources ect. for this project)?
@@pinga858 its called using our tax payers dollars to fix our man made mistake or hold JG boswell accountable for their negligence and paying of pockets for levies etc that cause the man made disaster that is now farmland and roughly 50k people live in. Move them all out somewhere else, and boom you have everything you need naturally..
the local history of the area you live in is usually never taught. why? because if you knew it youd be disgusted at how it came about. historians have been telling these stories but its the government ( that is paid off by corporations) that benefits from hiding these things because if you dont know you wont question why you need to destroy the land to make more money you'll just accept it
Retake the land by eminent domain. It’s the top of the aquifer, duh. Silly humans. JG Boswell has gotten a good return on his investment. Reclaim the land.
The California flag has a grizzly bear on it, but you sure don't see any grizzly bears in California do you. Because they eradicated them all, people probably got tired of watching their family members being turned into a snack.
Few people got financial benefit from the draining of this lake… how much tax payers dollars have financed and maintained this region for decades… let nature take its course. Move people away from the bottom of this lake and lets stop financing the few instead of the many that this lake could prevent flooding down river.
We need new water infrastructure projects for the Sierra Nevada Range above our valley. We have not had a new dam constructed in over 40 years. Please contact and demand this from your local representative.
We need to get rid of the dams and let the natural environment return. This would help agriculture in the long run because we'd return to the Valley's natural ways of storing water. The Valley used to be wetlands plus Tulare Lake. The settlers, farmers, dams, and irrigation dried up the lake and our water table. We need to invest in and utilize regenerative agriculture and permaculture. We can work together to advance the needs of people, farmers, and Nature, instead of pitting our communities and interests against one another.
@@dewaynem559 Probably more like thousands but I get your point. People may need to relocate. But if we continue on the present path, we'll use up all the water and then no one will be able to live or farm here.
This is a perfect example of "shifting baseline syndrome"... that people think the environment we have today is "normal", but that's only because they have no experience of nature prior to development. The draining of Tulare lake is something most Californians probably know nothing about, but without the lake the San Joaquin Valley is significantly environmentally degraded compared to what it used to be.
I wonder how many people driving to Black Rock desert know lake winemucca was 60 feet deep before Derby Dam was built to divert Truckee river water out to Fallon to grow melons and alfalfa. It finished drying out in the 30s
The "shifting baseline syndrome" is engineered by the climate change people. They pretend everything is climate change when it is natural cycles.
Would be nice if we could just let the lake return!
@@stanbatchelor810 those troughs make me so mad. kinda disgusting. especially the one that does nothing but grow cotton woods in a housing development
@@travisashley2605 it would be GREAT to let the lake return. Some cotton agriculture is a small loss compared to a vibrant water thriving ecosystem!! Native Californians see unite in kicking out agribusiness and welcoming back native animals and plants.
I’m heartened by these comments. It will be economically difficult times ahead as the lake takes farmland, but the removal of the lake no doubt reduced our water storage capabilities. It seems that farming itself caused the water loss problem, ironically.
sadly once it dries up again itll just be back to business as usual unless theres some sort of legislation to get it protected and to keep it around. timeframe for it drying up is apparantely september
There is no need to grow SUBSIDISED COTTON from that land.
@@RiseOfAnarchism That's if the state agrees to pump it on the taxpayer's dime again. We can just refuse! The farmers are very likely the "personal responsibility" types. So let then take this personal responsibility without dipping into my tax money.
I prefer the lake to stay exactly where it is and where mother nature intended it! The Boswell cotton farming corporation can go pound sand on a newly refilled Lake Tulare beach.
If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas.
Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater.
Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures.
Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs.
These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
If they just switch to a rice crop - everyone can be happy. Rice fields are symbiotic with California's valleys. The valley (entire valley!) is supposed to be flooded in wet years. Rice crops are the closest thing resembling that ancient landscape. (Rice fields are flooded much of the year, providing critical habitat to migratory birds, and other species.) Manage the land like they do in the North of the State - keep a wetland buffer around the rice crops, and let the water soak in. ENJOY the floods, instead of fearing them. Keep them beneficial, with canal systems and locks. (For both Man and Beast, as they used to say.)
I grew up in Goshen CA, and I remember my grandparents telling us stories about how Goshen was a junction for passenger boats traveling and stopping there, Goshen was like a small oasis
If there was an effort to strategically incorporate tap rooted (include natives) that pollinate by air, you can do a lot to restore aquifers, water tables.
Trees can protect the moisture on hills while also stabilizing them. Tree/plant diversity matters as that helps the soil biota also.
Much has been learned about soil biota recently and its more than just stuff eating what falls to the ground. Healthy soil biota moves nutrients and moisture, corrects soil texture, creates soil aggregates through natural glues, deepens fertility, sequesters carbon, creates soil, etc.
Livestock can also create a positive role in management by controlling weeds and pests and adding fertility while preventing oxidation of dead plant material. They key is to prevent overgrazing, and instead use mob grazing Overgrazing destroys soil biota, exposes I to drying and solarization, as well as reduce plant roots' ability to regenerate more biomass, aka food/livestock feed.
Other benefits of diverse pasture mob grazing ensures livestock are eating only the nutritious parts of the plants, stems produce hardly any calories or nutrition and therefore makes them more reliant on methane-producing bacteria to extract food value. Animals that are mob-grazed are much healthier need less medical interventions, and in turn peoduce healthier products that have better fats, more omega 3s, etc.
Make sure soil is always covered with living plant material is important in supporting healthy soil biota. Soil biota needs
a wider diversity of plants and depend on the diverse plant exudates to then make all the good things they do.
Avoiding tillage/plowing/fallow practices, monocropping and chemical ag practices also adds to food resiliency especially for smaller, family-owned farms as they can produce more quality and building personal resiliency.
All these things work in concert to maintain positive hydrology cycles...
@Neto Hernández
A traffic clover leaf would be a great place to adds a bioswale...
There's a reason why it was called the "Goshen Ocean"
@@TheWhoudini1974 i know I grew up swimming and fishing there
Let that natural lake grow🙏
Imagine taking a boat from sac town to Tulare lake back in them days
Bakersfield to San Francisco even!
Yep the valley fever and malaria it was a swamp
@@pongop yes, 2 men kayaked from the Kern River near Bakersfield to the San Francisco Bay in 1983.
@@KarlDahlquist Yes, I had just read about that! That's so cool!
@@KarlDahlquist Back in the day you could take a steamship from Fresno to the Bay Area on the Mighty San Joaquin
Bring back Tulare Lake! "Break the dam! Release the river!" -- Treebeard
And Release the Kraken!
Id trust that ent with my life and the lives of my two 3ft tall mischievous companions
@@RiseOfAnarchism =)
Mother Nature reclaiming her lake!
Please
When we take The Bureau of Reclamation out of the picture, we see actual Reclamation begin.
Time to reclaim all that Reclamation has claimed.
I was born in Bakersfield. Bring back the lake. Use it for recreation, and agriculture, and any other business, equally. Build up the sides in order to control the flooding. Oh. And no politicians get the shoreline for themselves.
Those built-up sides are called "levees."
Tulare Lake is going to look like this again.
I suppose there is no irony in the fact that parts of King County are now reflooding due to the exceptionally wet winter the central part of CA has experienced. Thank you for this historical footage.
Kings
Great professor!
I still remember him riding his bicycle to class
read "King of California" by Mark Arax, full story of what happened to Tulare Lake
Tulare lake should exist
Yeah. Who needs more farmland when we are all overweight anyways!
@@ahigatso2442 Those are almost all cotton farms. Besides, almost all of our state's agriculture is for export. We could reduce our agriculture to 1/20th it is now and we'd still be a top 10 food exporter in the world!
@@ahigatso2442 Clueless.
If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas.
Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater.
Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures.
Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs.
These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
The lake should be restored to its original state. We need to stop greedy people from exploiting nature and adversely altering it in order to make money.
It would involve shutting down a $25 billion ag industry, relocating about 50,000 people, and essentially redoing a couple of hundred miles of state highway that would be underwater. Of course, you're willing to pay your share of doing that, right?
@@almostfm we do everyday, its called tax payers dollars. You can easily take some of the billions from the military budget wouldnt be a thing. Or you could hold JG boswell company accountable for corruption and paying off the government to build levies etc cause a ecological disaster that we see happen every year. An use that to move everyone out and restore what would be a huge improvement to california. Imagine having regular rain fall again, snow fall in the mountains. Just all around a better environment thats supposed to be there.
@@almostfm Portions of Hwy 41 between Kettleman City and Stratford, Hwy 43 between Corcoran and Wasco, and I-5 south of Kettleman past the point where it passes the Kern National Wildlife Refuge on its way to Hwy 46 near Lost Hills would probably all have to be rerouted to make room for where the lake was. But that raises another question: if we were to allow the Tulare Lake basin to be refilled to its original depth, what was that depth? 25 feet? A hundred? You could put boats on it, but just how deep was it? Does anyone know? Did anyone measure it before cutting off the rivers that fed it?
Restore the lake. There was NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE PERMANENT farmland on that lake bed.
Video appears to be 30 years old? Here we are, same discussion, very little action.
It floods every 25-50 years.
Just think of all the benefits of a Lake Tulare vs cotton?
Tell that to Big Ag.
Tulare Lake is a saline evaporation basin. It is now heavily polluted with industrial farm run-off from decades of modern farming. See also the corruption of the Westlands Water District that benefited from the water that would have maintained the lake.
@@LeTrashPanda Big Ag wants droughts and empty aquifers to preserve farmland in Corcoran?
@@LeTrashPanda Exactly
@@ericmaclaurin8525 yes. theyre the reason were in the mess were in. look at who has opposed most legislation for preserving water because it would cut into their profits to lose acreage. companies only care about one thing, increasing year over year profits. they dont care about how they do it or what harm it does. look at the situation in ohio that is still underway and how the train company cut as much cost as possible to maximize theri profits until they caused a disaster that decimated an entire town and their proposed solution was pay off the town of 5,000 people with a whole 25,000$ check. thats only FIVE dollars per person. thats how much they value human life and the environment
If Tulare lake was dug deeper, and allowed to refill, we'd solve the water storage problem. California has always had a volatile water cycle. Dozens of very dry years create drought conditions, followed by wet years, full of flooding. A Tulare Lake dug deeper would allow the wet years to deposit large volumes of water to store for the dry years, not to mention the benefit to wild-life, a slightly cooler local area, local tourism increasing, and so many other benefits.
In Peter Andrews spirit! "Australian legend
Imagine Hanford and Lemoore having lakefront properly. The land value would be through the roof.
The government couldn't charge outrageous prices for water if its readily available.... They have to create a problem and then have people suffer and then tell you they can fix the problem but it will cost just a little bit more and then triple the cost and blame it on you... sound familiar
Don't you just love how cute people can be when they ignore both the laws of physics and the basics of Capitalism.
@@gemini-mg6sc Think of what Kelly's Surf Ranch could do with it.
So much government spending for the profit of so few.
I’m from kettleman, I live in lemoore, this is pretty cool
They drained away Lake Tulare much like they did to the Aral Sea in Russia, for agribusiness. Just another example of mankind's disregard for nature. Nature wins in the end. Sorry for the people who unknowingly built their homes/farms on a lakebed.
Let the Tulare Lake restored; I am not sure who the heck allowed the lake to be drained in the first place. Anyone with any common sense will know it is a terrible idea.
Seems like a great place for a natural reservoir for water storage which we need so badly. Sounds like a few wealthy land owners standing in the way of a greater good for rhe whole community.
i think we should eat them
@@RiseOfAnarchism Might as well.
It's better if you store water in the ground itself. Soil has incredible water holding capacity.
If people want this lake to persist, the best way is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas.
Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater.
Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures.
Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs.
These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air.
Nature finds a way
It’s amazing how destructive people are.
Canada sadly did the same thing to Lake Sumas on the west coast. When the river that once fed it broke through a levee and caused flooding, the MSM didn’t want to mention it was once a lake. They tried to push the climate change thing.
Bring back the lake
The state should buy the lake bed form Boswell and make it a resevior 😊
Amazing I didn’t hear climate change once
I guess if you understood the science you wouldn't need it spelled out.
No , now pole reversal is the new crisis ,
The report was from the 80s not 2023.
And climate change to wetter years will force political decisions probably to allow nature to restore the lake.
@@doneown503 I mean there are a few crises that could take place a disrupt our little delicate society. One solar flare all electronics on earth break, one asteroid could send us into a week of darkness under an ash cloud, global warming slowly rises our sea and dry’s our land, any moment we could break out into nuclear war, pandemics, oh and volcanoes
Doesn't change the fact that the greenhouse gas effect is rapidly heating this planet at an unprecedented scale.
"Don't underestimate the power of denial" - American Beauty
Very good report, helps explain the governor's executive order to reduce downriver flooding right now
Yeah, Emperor Hairgel really knows what he's doing.
The bigger problem is that after draining the lake they drill under the lakebed to drain the aquifer at it's lowest point. You get some nice occasionally flooded farmland but dump all of that water into the ocean instead of forcing it through aquifers and the atmosphere to untold millions of acres. It's completely insane. We build and rebuild canals that effectively destroy the natural underground canals and lakes that held much more than the reservoir system.
Actually, as the lowest point (in most years), the water contains only silt and clay, forming the lake bed. Its clay mostly, and water wells aren't common out there. Oil wells drilled near Kettleman City showed this to 1,000s of feet.
It’s gonna be ok bud. Relax.
Yes of course dump it! Rivers need the flow and need to be naturally simulated (i.e. more flow in rainy season). Education about modern water management in the media is very lacking, to fill said aquafers effectively needs vast amounts of certain land to make recharge basins, almost all of it being privately owned. And correct, it needs to be HIGHLY forced and at massive quantities, meaning a huge amount of power, I would like to know what your plan is on how you would set up all of this power infrastructure that is needed (where is freely available land, resources ect. for this project)?
@@pinga858 its called using our tax payers dollars to fix our man made mistake or hold JG boswell accountable for their negligence and paying of pockets for levies etc that cause the man made disaster that is now farmland and roughly 50k people live in. Move them all out somewhere else, and boom you have everything you need naturally..
Now it’s Corcoran
Bring back the lake!!!
Shame on Lindsay High School for not teachin this🤯🤯🤯💔💔🤔🤔lived here my whole life 45 yrs....Never a peep from historians 😡😡😡🤯🤯🤯🚣♀️🚣♀️🚣♀️😡😡😡😡😡🤦🤦🤦🤦
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@@petraa9416 this channel is 1 of our local news stations. Love ya sis🌹🍀🥰
the local history of the area you live in is usually never taught. why? because if you knew it youd be disgusted at how it came about. historians have been telling these stories but its the government ( that is paid off by corporations) that benefits from hiding these things because if you dont know you wont question why you need to destroy the land to make more money you'll just accept it
I grew up a stones throw from the Kings River. In my Jr High Biology class we studied the varied life in the River. It was wonderful.
What did they do with the Indians before all this
They moved the natives off by force in the 1800s. Read the history. Typical European expansionist.
This lake could save the sequoias and so many other beneficial species!
Tulare lake belongs to the people of Calif. and should be returned to it's natural state.
BRING BACK TULARE LAKE!
They need to bring it back
Retake the land by eminent domain. It’s the top of the aquifer, duh. Silly humans. JG Boswell has gotten a good return on his investment. Reclaim the land.
It will be paradise!
I would love to see a large lake on my drive down from SF to LA.
I'd pay for camping , if they re-purposed this area , sports & rec!
How about a large ocean? You can do it right now. It's called Highway 1.
Audio: left channel only. 😞
It’s coming back deal with it we don’t need a city where their main commodity is prisoners! Lol
uh based
My 2 cents....dig a hole and let any potential "flood water" go back into the aquifers underground. 2 birds 1 stone. Am I over simplifying this?
Nature has provided an opportunity to let the lake bounce back on a silver platter.
Read the book The KIng of California on a great history of the water in the Central Valley. The book features the impact of J.G. Boswell..
The California flag has a grizzly bear on it, but you sure don't see any grizzly bears in California do you. Because they eradicated them all, people probably got tired of watching their family members being turned into a snack.
If only the west coast would learn. It isn't climate change. It's usage
Mother nature: Hold my veggies!
Few people got financial benefit from the draining of this lake… how much tax payers dollars have financed and maintained this region for decades… let nature take its course. Move people away from the bottom of this lake and lets stop financing the few instead of the many that this lake could prevent flooding down river.
Let’s build a house at the bottom of a dried lake😊
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Nice, let it rip!
Prophecy
California needs to turn into it's own country .
We need new water infrastructure projects for the Sierra Nevada Range above our valley. We have not had a new dam constructed in over 40 years. Please contact and demand this from your local representative.
And where do you want the new dam ? Yosemite valley? Problem is everyone says not here
White man destroyed the lake. Along with the goverment
We need to get rid of the dams and let the natural environment return. This would help agriculture in the long run because we'd return to the Valley's natural ways of storing water. The Valley used to be wetlands plus Tulare Lake. The settlers, farmers, dams, and irrigation dried up the lake and our water table. We need to invest in and utilize regenerative agriculture and permaculture. We can work together to advance the needs of people, farmers, and Nature, instead of pitting our communities and interests against one another.
@@pongop millions of homes would be under water
@@dewaynem559 Probably more like thousands but I get your point. People may need to relocate. But if we continue on the present path, we'll use up all the water and then no one will be able to live or farm here.
I watched this movie twice as fast so that i can live tweet my reply.
pelicans don't sound like that
Let the lake live !!!!!!
Lake lovin'!