I used to live around here in Porterville which is on the Tule river if you could call it a river... it was always bone dry and just dirt. Crazy to see some good shots of the lake! A local historian would always talk about it and the ability to take a boat from it to Sacramento but I thought it was some old history and only happened because the great flood of 1862. Real as can be now! The flash floods last winter were WILD. I called my family to check on them, none were in the evacuation zone thankfully. GFs family in the foothill was on a shelter in place order in three river, a town near sequoia national park on the kaweah river. The central valley is vast farm land. Oranges, Almonds, Grapes, Corn, etc. Freezes rarely but man is it HOT. Only nice 2 or 3 months of the year when everything turns green before it all dies and turns yellow again. Air quality is horrible from dirt particulates and just smog. After a good raid I would have a beautiful view of the mountains but during the summer they were hidden by a haze. I wonder what effect this lake has on moderating the semi-arid/desert if any is even possible. Great to see the birds using it as a migratory stop. Must have been quite lush with life before with how fast some wildlife has come back. I would LOVE to time travel back to California before all the dams were made. Hetch hechy must of been quite the sight. Redwoods ALL up and down the coast (Only 4% remain). Tulare lake... owen's lake. All destroyed to server major city centers... SF and LA. Tragic but that's the price of progress I guess

@yajun19johnson

Жыл бұрын

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@yajun19johnson

Жыл бұрын

What kind birds are the ones playing Tyne stick

@roamingbenji

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I wonder if this last winter revived the Tule River for a time. As for the local weather, I'd imagine all the evaporation from the hot summer sun works to increase dew points in the San Joaquin Valley. I bet the lake moderates temperatures to a degree, and maybe even creates lake breezes. And yes, it would be great to travel back in time to see California before modern settlement. I suppose this year with Tulare Lake and Owens Lake is as close as we'll get to that!

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Yes, great points! I would love to see Tulare Lake back in the day, but hopefully we'll let it come back and restore back to (part of) it's former glory one day! It is a dream come true to see Tulare Lake in person! I hope to see it fully back one day!

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

The Lake definitely helped the rainfall, water cycle, and temperatures back in the day, and I also wonder if it's helping today.

Perhaps this is the reason the land is incredibly productive

Hopefully the lake will be permanent, since it was stolen from the rest of California by one man in the first place.

@cadespencer6320

Жыл бұрын

Are you on Instagram because there is a profile aimed at restoring the lake

Hope the folks who live in the area area able to build retaining wall like the levy to protect the homes out there. Nice to see lake back. Nice video once again-

being from Lindsay its cool to hear central valley being mentioned fr

Pa'ashi is back! Tulare Lake is back! Let's keep it here!

The great news is Tulare Lake will recharge the aquafers that the farmers have been draining for decades. Maybe even see water levels in their wells rising instead of sinking!

I couldn't get a good look at the trees that you thought were olives or almonds, but I think those were pistachio trees. Pistachios are commonly grown in the San Joaquin Valley but have broad large leaves like that, whereas olives and almonds have narrow thins leaves.

@roamingbenji

11 ай бұрын

I agree! I did some research afterwards and figured out they were pistachios. It makes extra sense since apparently the San Joaquin Valley's southern end, where I was, is especially known for pistachios.

Those birds are all white faced ibis. They seem to thrive in remnant wetlands in the Central Valley (I've also seen them in a remnant wetland in Chino, one of the few communities in SoCal's Inland Empire where there is still agriculture). I've never seen them outside California. I've seen white ibis all over Florida when I visited family a couple times in the 2000s, and have seen endemic ibis in Australia and South America. Maybe they like the wetlands for nesting, but the ag fields for gleaning waste crops that fell off and weren't harvested? Not sure.

Mother Nature

Actually California had two inland sea's, the Tulare Lake and the Salton Sea to the south. Both were interfered with by man by diverting the natural water flows. Tulare completely dried up and the Salton is in the process of drying up which I hope at some point is saved and restored to it's old self. California has a bad habit of pissing away the natural resources it needs to survive.

Maybe we shouldn't be draining ancient lakes and building where we will eventually be flooded out anyways. I bet that lake is more important for improving the air quality and providing a stop for migratory birds. Plus with droughts ever increasing we should want more reservoirs of fresh water like Tulare lake.

@cadespencer6320

Жыл бұрын

Facts!

Good job on the video

An interesting history of the transformation of the region is The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman.

Will someone please explain to me how landlocked Tulare Lake now has fish in it? How did they get there? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.

@01DOT0

Жыл бұрын

Humans introducing fish into the lake. But most likely birds that are feeding from nearby bodies of water that unknowingly introduce fish eggs if they land or even fly near Tulare.

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Several rivers feed into Tulare Lake, so the fish likely came from the rivers

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

@@01DOT0 Also from the rivers that feed into Tulare Lake

with luck this winter 2024 into 2025 will be just as wet if not more.. just so this great lake can return to something of it’s glory days.

The thing is we all share in the cost of it ! Not every person gets money from the sale of the products ! So in California we pay more for are food then other states ! Adress these problems and everone may care about farms

If i suffer more you will receive more treats

Failed HSR? It's still in progress. It's expensive, going to take a long time, but it's not a failure. CA should have done this years ago. The rest of the country will have to catch up eventually.

@Lazris59

Жыл бұрын

There's limits to what a state can do. California is not the federal government. It has federal ambitions, but state capability.

Nothing is lost, on the contrary, we have a lake back, a source of life, it was dead and has come back to life. God has shown again that he is full of mercy. Climate activists must be crazy, because they tell us that everything is going to end, that everything will end soon, but this Lake Talure tells us the opposite. They are wrong.

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Lol what are you talking about? Climate activists would say to respect nature and keep the lake around. Religious people who think a deity, rather than natural weather patterns, caused this lake to refill, rather than natural weather patterns, are the crazy ones. Tulare Lake comes back every few decades. Further, it's religious people who keep saying the world is ending soon. This is a case of Nature showing her people and that Nature wins in the end. And climate activists are correct that we're destroying the natural world, including the Tulare Lake area. The land around Tulare Lake is sinking and running out of water because of corporate agriculture. Yes, we've had a lot of rain this year and Tulare Lake is back for now, but we're likely to fall back into drought and to keep decimating the environment. We need to make some changes now.

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Study science

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Much is lost forever. Many of the indigenous Yokuts people, communities, culture around the lake are gone (although some Yokuts are still here!). The ultra dense vegetation around the lake is gone. The elk and antelope are gone. The boats on the lake are gone. Some aspects are lost and gone. But hopefully one day we can help restore Tulare Lake to her former glory!