California Colloquium on Water: Preston

[Holasrmateo]

...so if the land is just going to be fallowed and quite possibly never worked again, why not buy up land in the San Joaquin Valley? Permanently fallow Tulare Basin for the lake, compensate the farmers with land purchased on the eastern side of the valley. With much of the land not being worked today, you effectively wouldn't be losing the amount of land being farmed because the limiting reagent isn't farm land, but water.

[Holasrmateo]

I'm glad I stumbled upon this. His book, "Vanishing Landscapes: Land and Life in the Tulare Lake Basin", is out of print, but it is online on Google books and UC Press in its entirety.

I wonder if it would be possible to do an elaborate land trade. Agriculture consumes 80% of the water in California and with increasing demands from cities (especially in the Central Valley) and decreasing supply much of the land is fallowed and farmers sell their water rights....

[lifedeathxx]

its really sad about the lake.. ive know about it for along time living in the valley in Hanford in the country in an area called lakeside when i was a kid no one could tell me why it was called lakeside.. there's no one in the valley that knows about the Tulare lake, they think it was a desert before the white man came... its not true though the lake was the biggest lake in the western hemisphere of north America

it spanned for miles with wetlands surrounding it. all over. so sad its gone