Tulare Lake

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Instrumental inspired by a lake in the southern San Joaquin valley that doesn't exist anymore. I drove out to where I estimated, from the old maps, where it would have been and shot some video. It's kind of desolate out there in the wide open spaces. There's some stills mixed in with the video, too. There are also some shots right outside of Avenal facing west. Looking to the narrow Priest Valley with the Temblor mountain range in the background. Such a beautiful sight, with the clouds and everything. Must be fun to fly a plane around there. The stately beauty of the valley and the mountains. Ultimately it's about the balance between the environment and business. http://www.thoughtsonliving.com/2008/01/tulare-lake.html
http://virtualguidebooks.com/CentralCalif/SanJoaquinValley/KingsCounty/Tulare...
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/080815152_california-agribusiness-sows-bi...

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• Instrumental
• FolkRock
• GarageFolk
• folk
• AcousticGuitar
• Electroacoustic
• eclectic
• telecaster
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• martinD15
• DaleStewart

[dustups]

thank you so much 4 the comments. we drive through where, was once tulare lake 3 or 4 times a year on our way to the coast from fresno. what a narrow stretch of road through a once wild land. a tiny ribbon through a vast landscape.

[dustups]

I'll never forget reading somewhere that the indigenous people said, during the annual Salmon run, "You could walk across the lake on the backs of the fish". Thank you for the comment.

-Dale

[lifedeathxx]

great sound man... i really like it... 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.. so sad its gone

[1220amsoulradio]

Historically, the lake covered nearly all of Kings County and part of Tulare and Kern Counties. Desertified by man's expansion here during the nineteenth century, the "phantom" Tulare Lake formed at a broad alluvial fan near the town of Hanford with inflows from the Sierra Nevada. Tulare at its wettest recorded year covered nearly 760 square miles and supported vast populations of deer, elk, antelope, grizzly bear, migratory waterfowl, and aquatic species.

[TKainZero]

I am trying SO HARD to find pics of the Lake from 1997