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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Tulare lake used to support lots of different native tribes in the area. Until they were killed by settlers and disease and the lake was drained to feed the agriculture in the inland empire.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I saw this from an airplane recently. The scale is more than I could comprehend.