'During wet years ... Tulare Lake seems to rise from the dead — with some labeling it a 'phantom lake,'' writes researcher Trace Fleeman Garcia. 'The reality is, Tulare Lake was never gone in the first place.' (via latimesopinion)
Only two centuries ago, a shallow inland sea dominated California’s Central Valley. In a ring of impenetrable reeds, called tules, was Tulare Lake — then the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River. At the end of the 19th century, newly arrived settlers began draining it to provide water for agriculture and growing cities and to defend against destructive floods.
As the Algerian French philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote: “A ghost never dies; it remains always to come and to come-back.”
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