Tulare Lake, located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the whole of the US.But, some 130 years ago it disappeared – thanks largely to the greed of colonialists, who drained its waters to create arable farmland.And yet, last year, the once-cherish...

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  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    a geographer made a theoretical satellite photo of 1850s california some time ago.

    “[The Central Valley] used to have a big lake and lots of marshes from water runoff from the mountains. Dams and irrigation stopped all that many years ago. But I’ve always wondered what it looked like around here before that.”

    it's kind of fascinating to look at.

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    one can imagine being alive in those days and looking at what whites half-assedly named "central valley" as a heavenly place on earth.