Tulare Lake was a large shallow
lake that existed several hundred years ago and presumably thousands of years before that, which is now a shallow basin.
Native Americans built
reed[?] boats and fished in this lake before it was drained by white settlers for
agriculture. In fact, aggressive
groundwater[?] pumping since the draining of the lake has resulted in a significant lowering of the
water table and subsidence of the land.
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