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Disappeared before, California's "ghost lake" reappears after 130 years!
2024-12-04 16:08:50 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
A California "ghost lake" that disappeared in the 19th century is making its grand comeback after 130 years, swallowing 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland. Tulare Lake in California's San Joaquin Valley began to dry up in the late 1850s through deliberate actions taken to reshape the land at the expense of the existing ecosystem and nearby indigenous communities.
It disappeared around 1890 and reappeared in 2023, thanks to massive winter storms across the Golden State and melting snow from the Sierra Nevada. The lake once stretched over 100 miles long and 30 miles wide. Vivian Underhill, a researcher at Northeastern University who studies the phenomenon, said:
Tulare Lake was the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River. It's really hard to imagine that now.
There were man-made ponds around where the lake used to be, but the massive flow of snowmelt overwhelmed them all and submerged acres of farmland. While it has come at the expense of fertile farmland, the return of the lake has already begun to revitalize the valley's once-lost ecosystem. Ducks and other waterfowl have flocked to the shores of the lake for the first time in years, and frogs have even begun to return home to the shore.
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