Compare and contrast: California zombie lake turned farmland to water. A year later, is it gone for good?
The Guardian
For a time last year, it was difficult to drive through a large swath of central California without running into the new shoreline of a long dormant lake. The scene was astounding. Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater body west of the Mississippi before it was drained for agriculture in the 19th century. While it has re-emerged during other periods of wet weather, the lake hadn’t been seen anywhere near this scale in 40 years. Click here to continue reading