Comments on: Can letting Tulare Lake live make the Valley thrive?

By: Bob Beaver, born in Kings County

Bob Beaver, born in Kings County — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:55:00 +0000

California should never have sold dry or wet lake land, or removed native people from their homeland
.It’s bad enough that an island in the lake was called skull island from the bones of the local tribe who perished from the whites diseases.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:30:38 +0000

It is a gross exaggeration to state the lake was thousands of square miles in any way relevant to present.

By: c.j.wood

c.j.wood — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:01:25 +0000

Rebuild aquifer…restore sacred lands…restore flyways…all at a cheap cost. Once estimated in 1995(?) to be only 2 million. Part of lake could be restored.

By: CHARLES DEGEOFROY

CHARLES DEGEOFROY — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:35:38 +0000

I think the fact that Tulare Lake is trying to come back to what it once was should be enough for the State of California to let it be. Give the land back to the Indigenous Tribes to manage like they once did. Everyone would be better off for it.

By: Marilyn N Enochs

Marilyn N Enochs — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:33:35 +0000

In reply to Nolan Parker.

I would Like For Tulare Lake To Stay Where It Is because it will benefit environment for the wild life and for indigenous people that who were here first before the European People came into California.

By: Nolan Parker

Nolan Parker — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:09:44 +0000

The global climate, for whatever reason, continues to change with unpredictable and ultimately destructive consequences,

Seems to be how it goes. Since the beginning, it’s been in a state of constant change.

By: Linda froemel

Linda froemel — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:53:03 +0000

Why not rent or lease the private property of the farmers and see if returning any or part of the former lake is possible .we learned mhard lessons in the dust bowl years . This gives us time and options . The way the Sacramento weir is run and the Yello bypass operates is closer to the valleys natural cycle and easier and less expensive to run.Dams are a huge cost that sometimes make more problems than they fix or we end up with a toxic mess. We need flexibility in our water storage and that water can be saver and moved where needed. , some can be pumped into aquifers as a reserve against drought. Wildlife and, birds and fish as well as people can benefit it’s not much different from
the wind breaks and ponds that saved the Midwest and made it productive again.

By: jack schwarz

jack schwarz — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:17:50 +0000

Tulare Lake is the poster “child” or the problem. It could B used 2 grow rice in wet years but its definitely a symbol of how people squandered water. The real issue is that CA hasn’t built the capacity 2 store water in wet years that would allow it 2 use irrigation &/or maintain river/wetland ecosystems in streams in dry ones. Feast 2 famine rain cycles have destroyed aboriginal cultures in the past in the desert SW. Smart people learn from past failures.

By: Wayne brommund

Wayne brommund — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:36:26 +0000

Huge bond was approved by voters to create additional water storage over 10 years ago yet Nothing built…maybe Sykes reservoir someday…take that money and buyout landholder keep lake…

By: Rh

Rh — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:21:58 +0000

Letting Tulare Lake live would benefit California greatly. Rising temperatures and water scarcity would be two problems that this solves (partially). Imagine cooler air in Fresno! Plus, the opportunity to allow our aquifers to be recharged by this large water body is unpredented. I would fight to allow the lake to return. I think that the surrounding agricultural lands would also benefit from the richer and moist soil the lake would provide. And give the preservation and governance of the lake back to the native Americans. It ties to Gov Newsom’s reparation sensibilities because if we owe anyone anything, we owe plenty to the Native Americans.