Interesting article on Tulare Lake in today's Visalia Times-Delta (thanks Mom, for the send <g>). I remember noticing some of the things he's talking about on Highway 41, back when I first began researching the lake a few years back. Ever noticed Westlake Farms out there? There's a reason it's called "Westlake Farms"...
On the previous edition of this blog, I posted an overlaid map of Tulare Lake, if you're interested in seeing where the old lake used to be compared with what's there now. A section of this old 1874 map was used as the overlay (the lake was huge, back in the day):
