California’s Tulare Lake returns: The untold story
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- After a winter of record snowpack in California, tens of thousands of acres of farmland were flooded. But, put another way, it was the first time in decades the state saw the revival of Tulare Lake - central to the Tachi Yokut Tribe of the Central Valley.
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The land wasn't "lost to flooding", it was reclaimed by nature to it's rightful place.
ohh yes It was this lake belongs too all
@@rafaelduarte1068 we are part of nature everything we do is in harmony with nature. We ARE nature. Can not divide humans from nature.
They literally rephrase it to say the exact same thing one sentence later
And to its rightful people whom I totally agree with them... it's all about balance.
@@gennaterra The human family is the rightful people.
You go, Tulare! We love you and welcome your return!
Not only is Lake Tulare or Tule lake but also Owens Lake has come back too so much water that its filling these lakes again a real blessing after so many years of drought and depletion of the aquifer.
There are multiple definition of drought. They lie to us by using he ad need based definition rather than the meteorological definition. They are devastating the land so that a small number of families can be insanely rich exporting ag products not only around the nation but across the globe.
You know that cALIFORNIA is a desert. Why did 100 million people move there?
It's so cool to see the original people of this land!
You don't get to see many of them, state of California had a price for their scalps from the 1850's to the early 1900's. Lucky there's even one left.
@@kingboagart899 I love how people like you have this fictional characterization of what the American Indian people are like. Obviously, you have never spent ANY time on a reservation. Besides casinos, they offer an extreme murder rate, as well as violent crime. High drug and alcohol use, high percentage of rape. But you picture them as some sort of "spiritual simple people".
I bet you will be the same person that complains when the price of produce and groceries sky rocket in price and you cannot afford to shop on your Starbucks job.
Oh and your "you don't see many of them" is also incorrect. They are not some endangered species.
We’re proud to be here still💯
@@n8ivhell877 Can't wait for the casino and truck stop!
@@n8ivhell877 Long live the American native brothers! ✌️
I certainly feel horrible for family farmers there but building a life in a lake bed that was artificially drained, sooner or later it was going to come back with the right conditions.
The lake belongs to a company, not farmers families
They didn't belong there anyway. Profited unduly long enough.
@@rauli386Of course. That water belongs to our capitalist overlords.
These people can go drink dirt.
I don't feel bad for the farmers any more than I feel bad for someone who buys a stolen car.
@@curiousnomadic?
When Mother Nature provides a drought stricken area with megatons of rainwater , snow, and precipitation, as with all of the storms that ravaged the area the past year or so, it is imperative that the people and the caretakers of the land, retain and preserve as much of the water as possible.
Fresh water has been disappearing for decades, and it's great that these people recognize and cherish that. This should set an example to the entire state and Country that the gifts the Earth provides to us should be valued highly and preserved. After all those years of severe drought, the rains and winter storms finally came. As a species, it would be very difficult to survive without an abundant supply of fresh water..
...In the year 1957, I was born and raised along the Kings River as were my parents in the Sanger-Reedley-Porterville area where the rivers flowed into the Lake Basin. Before the dams were built my uncles and father - who were born in the 1920s - said they would cross the great river basins in rafts and would play games with the local "Yokut" boys living near the river bottoms. The great rains would fill the Lake Basin and the locals always felt it was strange that someone would want to plant trees and farm the great Lake Basin.
Beautiful prose here. Respect.
LET THE LAKE LIVE !!!
Tulare Lake Restoration Act needs to happen.
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You have my vote🙋♂️
Which dams do you plan on getting rid of to make it happen?
@@bouji_ I don't think any dam would have to be torn down. I think sharing the water from the rivers that naturally drain to the lake should be sufficient to keep the lake alive. BTW they're already tearing down dams at the Klamath River.
It seems to me that a lake that large would affect the local climate. Could it be that the loss of the lake could have contributed to the persistent drought conditions in the area?
Certainly. One example: The lake replenished the ground water, the aquifers, so whereas in a lot of places out there, people's wells have gone dry and new wells can't be dug deep enough to reach water, if the lake were still there that problem would be very different today.
It's been a lot cooler
That, but also the City of Los Angeles bought the water rights to the region and diverted it towards the city. That's why there's a large section of Central California that's almost uninhabitable, because most natural sources of water have been diverted and stripped from the local population.
No. California is dry. Always has been.
The government should buy out the flooded land and turn it into a park/nature reserve. The lake sustains the local ecosystem, it should be allowed to return once more.
As for farmland, with excess freshwater, whenever there is excess, divert it to the desert and green the deserts. That way we can have both the lake and more farmland. Once the deserts turn green it becomes a self sustaining ecosystem, the water will continue to cycle within it without having to have external water added into it to keep it verdant.
The OG's....one of the reasons I love the USA...man I hope their community just continues to grow and thrive for generations 🤝
Seeing a wronged people reclaim their heritage makes my heart soar.
indeed!
@0darknanaSeek professional help
only temporarilly though unless we help make it permanent!
What a foolish thing to think. Why don't you open your wallet and home if your guilt is that gut wrenching. Oh, didn't think so. That's tough, huh? Liar!
Hello, I am a graduate student working on a thesis focusing on the Yokuts of Tulare Lake and their struggle against 18th and 19th century colonialism. Would you be willing to share some of your sources? Thank you!
Idk if this helps, but in the video description, there's a link to the article which includes a lot more information
I’m so excited! This is great news, both as a farmer and nature lover. These giant farms aren’t good for small farmers or the environment, and the lake is so important! ❤
California needs to keep this lake for a healthy ecosystem
I'm third centurion Californian and when you said that " The first thing that comes to mind...is we need this!"
No truer words have these ears ever heard!
Just don't watch too much Shaun Hannity because you might start believe that farmers need water more than fish! All the while forgetting to mention that those same farmers already sold their water rights to Los Angeles!
Tulare Lake boasted a huge wild Steelhead population In it's heyday!
I just hope and pray that this El Nino cycle brings rain and large snowpack the whole time it lasts.... that way the lake can do what it did for millinea...fill the aquafirs underneath it with precious snow melt.... save it for us...we will need it!
Maybe in that time span we can come to our senses and nurture this blessing!
That's what my Dad would of said! He traveled " The Fruit Trail" in the 20s through the Great Depression then became an Island Hopper Combat engineer Amphibious WWII...came back home to California then printed Telephone Books ( The yellow pages...let your fingers do the walking!) for The Los Angeles Times for 37 years....Miss you Pop....
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA ✌️❤️🇺🇸🛐🗽
I am all for less vegetable and fruit farming and can see how a stocked fish lake would be more sustainable and provide better food than Agriculture. Vegetarians won't like it, but veggies are generally a luxury.
@@MikeM-qy9zzVery dumb comment in so many ways. Most of the land that is underwater is owned by Boswell Family Farms and they grow cotton, alfalfa, and tomatoes, which are by far some of the most water-intensive crops. California can easily change some policies and still keep growing all the vegetables.
@@JonBrownSherman are you a farmer? I am a farmer. Acres of veggies are going to be extremely water intensive, more so than ranching the same land with ducks, sheep, goats etc.... Or in this case, stocking the lake with a fish species. Vegetable growing also means that most mammals (rabbits etc ...) Have to die, look at a modern agriculture farm and it is very destructive to the natural habitat. I run and operate an organic/sustainable farm without pesticides or herbicides in Heavener Oklahoma... What do you do that makes you an expert?
@@MikeM-qy9zz My friend, farming in Oklahoma is so far removed from the realities of farming in California. I have many farmers growing organically in production ag. Los Angeles once was the most prosperous agricultural county in the whole of the United States, not anymore, it has all been taken by businesses and homes, in other words, people that produce goods or services that sometimes you even use and appreciate. I guess getting your produce and fiber from Mexico is just great? Would you yourself compare your organic products to items coming from Mexico? No comparison.
@@randyisthechase5008 I lived in San Diego 2008-2016 and went to Suzie's Farm in Imperial Beach, which got sold and turned into a development.
The food supply on this country is alarming to say the least, and is completely dependent on slave labor, electricity, gasoline, and chemicals
I wish I could farm in SoCal instead of Oklahoma lol!
This is incredible!
The irony is the farmers pumping ground water and causing subsidence actually contributed to the lake returning.
Let nature take its course Tulare lake. Welcome home 🙏
In the 1800s, steamships could travel from SF Bay to Tulare Lake. In WW2 it was used as an alternate landing area for flying boats if the Bay was too choppy. The lake was drained because greedy farmers saw extremely fertile land they could steal from the Indians with no consequences. They'd set the tules on fire to burn out the Indians. And yet we're told it's a disaster the lake is back?
That 1800's line about "Steamships traveling from SF to Tulare Lake" is a Myth! Flying boats use it as a alternate landing site, its too far from SF, and with all that water, comes,,, FOG. So how could they land or see it. I can tell youve never experienced the dense fog this valley can make.🤠
thats because colonial settlers are still in colonizing mode. the whole immigration debate is to keep the indigenous population of the americas from out numbering them. latinos on the southern border are mostly indigenous people who were colonized into a spanish identity. the whole south west only been in the united states since 1850.
@randyisthechase5008 in fact the fog is known as "Tule Fog" from Grapevine to Redding. I'll go so far as to take the coast route just to avoid it.
This is both heartbreaking and beautiful. Go Tulare lake, may you refill and reclaim your abundance. And may your people thrive! Native Californian here; love seeing glimpses of California before corporate greed and working against nature became the norm. We can create thriving abundance for everyone here working *with* Nature. 💚💚💚
Saw it from a plane last week.
Nice to see.
This lake was a lake before it was farmland ! The state of California is going to have to come up with the proper solution to maintain a balance hopefully! California is a power house
Re-Instate Tulare Lake!!
I've watched about 6,000 videos in the past two months. This one's the absolute best one. Absolutely fantastic.
A lake is a lake and not farmland or a homestead.
Californians - Save this wonderful Lake. Restore Tulare Lake!!!!
We need to fight hard to keep this lake alive.... now that the lake has come, we need to preserve it, save it, and save it....
Hmm so i live in the southern part of the valley and so much farmland is drained wetlands. They get floody septics fail. Its a real common issue in the US to build where geography puts water. These lakes where natives fished were drained. Imagine how those areas would have helped over this drought. There is this story of "the king of california" who manage ti get water rights for all this land then drained it and sold of the land. A very american story of suffering for the sake of one rich man
My grandfather used to say, "do not forget the water course, because the water will always go back to it"
I hope those farms stay forever DROWNED under lake Tulare and never come back!!!!!
So you’re actively in support of thousands of farm laborers, most of them immigrants, to lose their livelihoods?
It won't stay, but it is a marvel that it's come back at all.
me too!
Those farms feed you
ARKstorm is coming.
Google it.
What a wonderful miracle. I wish things were different and the peoples of the lake could have it back.
They need to make Tulare Lake definite. But it will become debatable.
Because they drain Lake Tulare, they want to divert the water from the Delta for their crops. This needs to stop they are destroying Mother Earth. We do not need to become another Texas.
Leave the lake,California needs it
The native needs it not California
Once in México Chapala lake was drain and people estar farming the land end the rain came back they lost everything tractor and Mony sorry for the farmers
Wow that's interesting, I had never heard of this Lake but it looks very beautiful
We all need this lake.
More of this please. This fills my heart for the REAL Americans
So much respect for those who came before us, who were here from the beginning, truly existing on what it took to live on what was presented to them, undisturbed for thousands of years, understanding the land and its resources and thriving for millennium. Unfortunately, as the world’s population has increased and expanded, we can no longer exist as a hunter and gathering peoples, granted the exploitation of indigenous peoples across the world is appalling and should never be forgotten but ultimately the progression of modern man is perpetual and the guttural reaction to feed the world from taming the land from the standpoint of modern agriculture is a testament to both indigenous peoples and recognizing the potential of feeding and providing to countless generations in the future😎😎😎
Such beautiful water that gives us all life.
Yay for more water
Tulare in the news cross country! I am a Visalia boy and read this in the NYTimes!
California needs the lake back
Draining lakes to make towns and flooding towns to make lakes. You really put this country at a major set back.
Wish we could see the Owens valley returned to a natural state.
I love seeing this lovely blessing of nature return, even if it's a temporary phenomenon. Didn't know about the native tribe's history there, but I shouldn't be surprised. So much that we don't know about the story behind the development of our country. Very enlightening. This is a sign from the higher powers. Hopefully, we'll learn the correct lessons from this amazing twist of fate.
Read several years ago about a lake that used to exist decades ago. Now as if a miracle, no it is a miracle. While I don't know the detailed stories of this large area. I believe finding a way to preserve the water level of this lake is essential
That’s what I technically got told by my mother. And by sicon of course that Tulare was just a big big lake until the whites drained it and it became just crops until the rains come crashing down from the heavens and fill Tulare lake again.. I with native blood believe we can restore how nature really was.. grateful for the water that has come back to the Central Valley the lake will hopefully provide for us
Good we need start reserving our water LA COUNTY JUST BE DUMPING IT WE NEED MORE RESERVIORS
A gift from up above
Thousands of acres of farmland are lost every year in America to suburban sprawl.
This is unsustainable.
Native land don’t forget …..
Give up your home and move out of the Western Hemisphere then, it is "all Native land.
Not Native land anymore
@@stephenjenkins7971 says eho
still indigenous peoples lands. colonial settlers forget they come from some other continent and then call other indigenous peoples immigrants. nature reclaiming the lake just like they will be replaced. thats why they have so much fear in them.
@@episdosas9949 They lost the land in war. So its not their anymore, just as they stole it from someone else. Native Americans have no stake on the US as the US was formed by British settlers -they are just another people annexed into the country.
The past is dead and buried. And so are the many Indigenous Nations.
The rape of California for white man’s profit is appalling. I hate that the indigenous populations of the USA have been treated so miserably. People - lost. Cultures - lost. Spirituality - lost. May the Great Creator protect those of the tribes that are still left…and let Pa’ ashi live!
lol.... Well, now the Chinese, Muslims, SE Asians, Indians from India are coming in fast and they will be the new rulers and they won't bow to your social justice cries...meanwhile people like YOU are still talking about 'da white man blah blah blah' LMAOOO
YEAH!
And here you are using the white mans tech to speak to many people. Ain't white man tech grand? BTW....what happened is as old as man has walked the earth. There are many peoples all around the world that have disappeared. Many peoples wiped off the face of the earth by 1 empire attacking another. Its the way it has always been.
Do you care that the Indigenous populations slaughtered and stole each other's lands? That's the fate of the conquered. But all you see is color.
"The fate of the conquered"...an age old story. Tell me, when your turn comes, will you be so reconciled to your fate? Color won't save you either. Just a reminder of how the world does turn. Marvelous to see this natural wonder resurrected!
The birds and ducks and animals and the people need that lake keep it may the LORD let the lake live
This is amazing. I live in Fresno California, and they're saying that it can come all the way north to my town.
This is so good, it’s been so long, straight up what we really needed, finally everything gets fixed!😅
I think it is a sign to learn the old ways again and to prepare ourselves for the end of the settlers way of life.
Mother nature taking back whats hers let's go 💪
Please let it stay this way
Isn't this a good thing? California has been having major drought issues, now the largest fresh water lake has finally returned. I think it is a cause of celebration.
This only proves nature will find a way, this lake should never have been drained it provides much more as a Lake and reservoir!! This I hope will spark a drive to re-instate Tulare as a Lake!!
The lake needs to be there
Total reclaimed Lake area of 113,000 acres = 45,200 Hectares
= 174.66 sq.miles (13.21 × 13.21) = 452 sq. kms. (21.26 kms × 21.26 kms)
Thank You
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I didn't even know some of the people from the tribes survived. Thank goodness.
Thank you Los Angeles Times.
Keep it filled
In the 1920s J.G. Boswell planted cotton in the lake bottom. King Cotton was worth lots of $$$$.
The hell with J.G. Boswell!!!
Come on Tulare Lake!!!!
Cotton should be grown in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Is the lake still full?
Might as well leave it alone.
they still have to close of the diversion that killed it and stuff
These people are the true owner of this country.
Facts
I would love to fish that lake when it comes back!
The whole valley has been down about the lake being gone
So if there was a chance to build a lake there. Which would consist of digging 50 feet down in using the material to take it to the valley and build the valley up under the Farms. You know the Fisher said used to carry the water they're broken down because they've dried out. Won't fix themselves because the water is back there.
Do you know if you did it where the Farms had large Wells under the Farms. Like Breakwater bricks under the Farms so they can hold water under the tire farm and then use the dirt as with Levi in between the Farms when there's extra water in the lake you can transfer that to the farms under them so they can pump it up when they need it the lake gets to be there
If you ever read Adopted By Indians by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, you know that the return of Lake Tulare is the land calling for its people. I approve of of Lake Tulare's return. I do not approve of land ownership. Land owns itself.
Nature is healing and California wants to be free again.
No one will ever suppress the tradition running through the veins of the loving people that hold them dear. ❤❤❤❤❤
Reverance and gratitude for Tulare return
Amazing!
Considering how much waste there is in the food industry, how much food we (over)eat and throw out, I'd rather have this beautiful lake back then more farm land. Is it "corporate" farm land?? I know a lot of very wealthy "farmers". Hopefully the lake won't dry up but I think it's predicted it will by then end of summer.
The Tulare Lake bed is owned by the J.G. Boswell Co. since 1921. Boswell grows cotton and tomatoes.
Can't grow cotton or tomatoes with out water i see signs all over saying stop dumping water lol well this is there chance finally got the water
Let's see what happens
This is a sad story
Blessing
Nature decided it was time to take over again. All I want to know is. When are they going to start planting bass in there?
First nation has always known what's up. If only us white dudes would listen.
1) That's very racist. Russia would welcome you.
2) That's not democratic at all
What a snowflake...all he said was that Anglos should listen more to other viewpoints. And you freaked out, and proved his point. Stooped to dragging the Russians into it. Why don't you throw in the Nazis while you're at it. Was it democratic to steal the Native people's land in the first place, pilgrim??
That's pretty awesome
This lake dries up periodically, as mentioned in the video
Tular Lake needs to be protected for now on!!
The California government should buy the land from the billionaire corp that owns most of it and let it return to it's natural state. If there was a call to drain such a lake in CA it would never be allowed to happen so why now? The environment and indigenous peoples will thank us in generations to come.
Is there enough money in the state budget to do that, and to also take the loss of tax revenue?
@@E3ECO Typical liberal @enmodo is. Use other people's money for a whimsical idea without realizing the consciences of those actions for themselves.
If the lake is preserved, it will not be for the indigenous people; but for all Americans. Your logic is extremely elitist.
@@stephenjenkins7971only natives not you colonizers 🤡
What man taketh away God give back 🎉🎉
Psalm 126-130
A song of ascents.
1 When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
Weren’t a lot of farms over using water and not rationing? I feel bad for the people but not bad for farms that don’t know how to manage limited resources in my state.
The Lake needs to be returned!!!!
Could not the center of the lake be dredged to twice its depth to ensure it does not dry up by use??? What kind of impact could it be to the state to permently return it to the area? Additionally digging it to twice the depth would not only keep the original water volume but decrase water evaporation by half while saving half of the farms in the process.
When Mother Nature says, “Hold my beer.”
This is a fantastic video thank you 🙏
🎶With no more flowers and my love to comeback🎶 🎶No more will my green sea
Go turn a deeper blue🎶
🎶I could not foresee this thing
Happening to you🎶
🎶If I look hard enough
Into the setting sun🎶
🎶My love will laugh with me
Before the morning comes🎶✨😈✨✨
One love
Thanks...I'm going to listen to U2 now....🤔✌️
Awesome
When you find some extra time, organizing open air cinema shows, watching some documentaries together, experimenting the Lourdes effect, which means, that precise positive spirit like a prayer, it creates a healthy kind of energy that people might enjoy it, water was crucial since ancient ages, when water stocks were exhausted, people had to abbandon cities, move away, immigrate and lose everything, starting a new life in the middle of the nowhere. Now that extreme weather gone insane brings water bombs, all rain of an year or ten years comes all at once, everybody must be ready to save the water for the dry season..yeah, if we just could build back the tribal native communities that united once people. I think it's not a good idea ignoring religions, this symbiotic relationship we need to have with the Holy Creation, if this planet is not Holy guys, l have no idea what on earth could ever be holy, if we do not care of our planet's health why she should ever care about us anyway? If anyone ever thought, the Earth that is feeding us, deserves our affection, well, the best reason to react and start using smart architectures, flowing ditches, saving the water in a reservoir, an artificial lake and stay united for getting back..the lost welfare, at least a bit of it
So cool
A question. Is it here to stay for good? Or is this just a glimpse?
Perhaps a reminder of what California once had, and lost due to greed and lack of foresight. Or a suggestion of things that we can do better and smarter, for a better future for all of us.
Chumash love 🪶