The lake once spanned over 100 miles long and 30 miles wide.
A California “ghost lake” that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland.
There were manmade basins around where the lake formerly resided, but the sheer flux of snowmelt overwhelmed them all and submerged acres on acres of farmland. Soon, it had dried up entirely, freeing up those hundred thousand acres of farmland — and forcing the Tachi Yokut off of their land, having crippled the local ecosystem through the drainage.
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