The largest body of water west of the Mississippi disappeared 130 years ago

Still there, but much smaller:

> Last summer, Tulare Lake covered around 120,000 acres of land in Kings County.

> "If you think about Kings County, it's about 890,000 acres total, and so with that coverage, over 10% of our county was covered in water, which is a pretty remarkable thing to think about." Kings County Sheriff's Sgt. Nate Ferrier said.

> In the months since, the water has receded drastically, now covering around 4,500 acres of land.

- https://abc30.com/tulare-lake-recent-storms-wet-weather-wate...

" Once, Underhill says, there was so much water that a steamship could carry "agricultural supplies from the Bakersfield area up to Fresno and then up to San Francisco" — a distance of nearly 300 miles. "

It'd be nice to re-establish a small channel, only open in big years, like it used to be.