Flying an airplane over Tulare Lake 2023: What happened?? 

The horor of climate change. It is destroying all of the work that went into eradicating Turlare lake.

Any more updates? The rain just keeps coming!

Lol thanks for the vid brotha 😂😂😂 truth be told I was born and raised in Tulare till I moved to Reno in June of this year lol it was so bad out there during winter like 3 family's I know had there houses either washed away or completely flooded

Great vid. Hows the lake looking today?

@@robertwrites925 Thx. Last I heard, the lake has slowly continued to shrink but the rainy season is about to kick in so that may change things.

Would it stabilize ground water levels if Tulare's bottom is solid clay? Water can't penetrate clay. However, it will create a lacustrian ecosystem that will bring birds and other wildlife, as well as grasses, sedges, rushes and cattails and so much more. I hope it never dries up.

Allowing the marshlands to return would be essential to that goal. That would require the absence of all development, wouldn’t be allowed even if all the property owners were willing to give up their land. Wetlands are prime targets for developers; easily developed flat land that just needs to be dried out. That’s the majority of flat land in the US.

@@SarahGreen523 what makes you think water cant penetrate clay?

@@SarahGreen523 water does penetrate clay. More importantly though this would provide original habitats and ecosystems like you mentioned. That's key.

Are you sure you understand how ground water works?

They cannot coexist. Not with a healthy lake.

Cotton company should dump in a big load of Louisiana crawfish.

Human activity and the weather will determine the fate of the lake.

I hope so. Lake belongs here it has every right to exist.

@@dakmycat3688 That is up to nature, like it or not. Nature and it's drought dried it up, nature and huge amounts of snow, filled it up. Further human activity can twist the outcome.

nature has a say

"we also drained the only way it was being replenished." Nonsense. that area is a giant bowl. every bit of rain that falls there is absorbed into the ground and the constant seismic activity helps to prevent the aquifer from being compacted.

@@jimbeam-ru1my "Every bit of rain that falls there is absorbed into the ground" Aquifer recharge from rain is really small in magnitude as much of it is absorbed or runs off. You need bodies of water to replenish aquifers and that's what intentional recharge tries to do.

You think Boswell cares?

Clean fresh snowmelt replenishing the aquifers. Enjoy the poisonous air and water in your state🤡☠️🖕

I was finding alot of articles about Tulare Lake back in April when the flood threat was greater...but it has naturally faded in importance in the media. I had been wanting to make the video since then but for various reasons I wasn't able to get around to it until now.

Glad you brought up the huge benefit of the silt drop. This flood will ultimately have huge benefits.

I would love another wet winter.

@@iTriguy1similar to the inundation of the Nile River Valley. Silt is what creates the fertile soil.

I have seen years the Kern went past the Buenavista Lakes and was detained in farmland west of that with a huge berm covered in tarps.

I suppose that's how it is. But let me tell you, what will you eat when that time comes

Nature blew up the fucking dinosaurs, so I think I’m good with humans practicing controlling nature.

@@1Corinthians151-4 He'll just buy the food from the grocery store ;D

@@1Corinthians151-4 plenty of other places to farm, pretty short sided to farm in a naturally low area

they can also start pumping into the aquifers

bingo, this is the truth. huell howser went out there that year and his show is how I learned about it two decades after t happened- before all this current hype

My mother would be laughing. She loved Tulare lake.

That does scare me. We have enough of that in the Salton Sea. Heaven forbid. The dust from the Salton Sea is poisoning people near and far!

@@diane1390and now birds are dying from a bacteria found in the lake. It’ll only add to the toxicity of the lake.

Worse happened to The Yokuts. Most were slaughtered in a genocidal rate. The natives of California, most of whom lived in The Central Valley, were one of two tribes in all of North America that were sedentary complete with towns and institutions like schools, town halls, and hospitals. Smallpox got most of them, and the farmers made sure there was no trace of their towns left. History of California.

​@@user-om7wg7ye5q thanks for writing this... I couldn't help but feel anger at the thought of those poor natives living their lakefront lives in what must truly have been an idyllic setting... only to have their existence obliterated by, let's be real here, **cking barbarians. you can be sure those invaders came & proceeded to act out the worst parts of the old testament on those poor natives. Sure. it's not the first time such a thing has happened in history but in terms of the time-line as a whole, it happened Yesterday.. Just for ONCE can you f****ing people live up to your st**id goddamn religion ?? How could anyone calling themself a Christian do such things ?? I thought foolishly.. until I realized they WERE living up to their book.. their Bible If you ever read through the old testament, the isrealites go to and fro invading, stealing, killing.. Just declare yourself the good guys and say you're killing in His name The Utter F**king Insanity

Thx Bobby! Glad it made your day!

Go for a flight! I saw the valley from a small plane and it was a magnificent experience ❤ it was a beautiful quilt

Check out Google Earth you can fly over it yourself.

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I agree 100%

There is no lake to save and hasn't been for a hundred years, there is a former lake bed with farmland and even towns on it, that has flooded a few times in the past hundred years, but there is no lake. It was destroyed over a hundred years ago on purpose, and infrastructure built to keep it drained. It is no more a lake anymore than a puddle in your yard after a rain is a pond.

give it a couple of more times to flood like it did. by at least the 3rd or 4th, people won't be moving back to the area and will probably just let the lake exist whenever it re-floods.

@@Ilikefire2792 That would be great news!

In the past, one could take a paddlewheel ship from Stockton to just north of Bakersfield. I discovered this because I wondered why there were piers, wharfs, and docks up and down the valley. I recall there even was a derelict steamboat north of Dinuba. That was the early 1990s, I haven't been back since. Piers and such can likely still be found here and there in the valley.

@@secretsquirrel6308that’s amazing

@@secretsquirrel6308 Most paddleboats ended at French Camp Slough located just south of Stockton around the Gold Rush. At the most, maybe someone could have taken a boat to Fresno (Just north of Fresno where Fort Millerton used to be.) along the San Joaquin, but, again, this was well before our time. I live in Manteca and was a trained member/docent of the Manteca Historical Museum from the middle 1990's until about 2001.

are you advocating for a dam of the SJR?

@@trinydex Yes. One has been in the planning stages for a decade or more, referred to as the Temperance Flat location, on the San Joaquin River.

@@jerroldkazynski5480 I think this is the solution. more storage. makes no sense to keep having record rainfalls and continuous draught. if I make lots of money and still end up broke every month that's money mismanagement. In California if we do that with water, it's somehow called climate change and too much demand.

@trinydex Plus, for those who track the farmed acreage of the Tulare Lake bed, there isn't enough surface water to allow farming of the lakebed every year. Pre-history, Tulare Lake periodically dried up, as Owens Lake did also, before diversion of river waters for beneficial uses.

@@jerroldkazynski5480 the narrative needs to change. there's a segment of Californians who lean toward environmentalism who just think saying no to everything is the answer. less humans is the answer. less human activity is the answer. we need to let the adults retake the helm and stop listening to nonsense.

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it has def been awhile!. Glad you liked it.

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@Strange Streams Great points and well said! The lake yet grow still. Yes, great Treebeard quote!!! 💚

a bonus for anybody that gets that far into the video :)

I genuinely want to cry. This was a lake that natives used for so many generations and for modern man to come and destroy it, is so heartbreaking. Keep Lake Tulare!!!! 🥹

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Yes...it's been awhile. Thanks for sticking with the channel!

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Thx! A little bonus for anybody that stuck around thru to the end of the video :)

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Thx Dan. Yeah YT content has been low on my priority list lately but I def enjoy this type of format for my videos. I have more videos in the pipeline...I just can't crank them out as often as you do!!

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Where you based out of?

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Come visit sometime... lunch is on me.

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Thx! It’s been awhile hasn’t it :)

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Much appreciated!!! Thx for watching despite my infrequent and unpredictable postings :)

Wow thx Maria! My first ever Super Thanks! Glad you found the video informative.

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thx! I had been wanting to cover Tulare Lake for a couple of months. I'm glad I was finally able to put it together.

@@Wolficorntv Nice job!

Sorry it's taken so long, haha! I'm definitely not one of those YT'ers who can put out content every week...but this was definitely a long hiatus. Glad you stuck around!

@@Wolficorntv No apologies necessary, thanks for all you do :)

i meant to say "who can't" put out content every week

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I feel bad for them too cause no one deserves to lose everything. But in hind sight making your farm in a lake bed might be a bad idea. I hope it gets turned into a park instead of a farm next time it dries up.

He did sort of indicate the more you pump from the aquifer, the more subsidence you get. Karma?.

Nothing wrong with farming that land when the water recedes over time. Just be ready for Plan B when the rains come. It's still highly valuable land in the broader spectrum as a water preservation area, which California needs so much.

great reporting, thankyou!! now i know who`s responsible for ruining natures wonderful tomatoes. tragic on a huge scale.

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Thx Rich! Hope to see some more fly/cooking videos from you!

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Awesome. Glad you enjoyed it Zach!