Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed ...

Tulare County in California is the third largest agricultural producer in the state and now many of its farms are underwater.

Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, was last full in 1878. Recent storms have flooded thousands of acres of farmland in the area.

Images from NASA show the revival of Tulare Lake after months of relentless rainfall in Central California.

Tulare Lake's rebirth will reshape life in the San Joaquin Valley for years to come. But longtime residents remain committed to the region and its remarkable seasonal rhythms.

The previously dry Tulare Lake bed has rapidly flooded over the past few months due to heavy rainfall and snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada.

Images from NASA's Earth Observatory show how the once-extinct Tulare Lake has come back to life in California.

Tulare Lake was once the largest lake West of the Mississippi before farmers in the 1920s diverted the rivers that filled it to nourish crops. But after a winter of heavy rain and flooding in the ...

NASA satellite images show return of Central California's Tulare Lake Photos captured from the NASA Earth Observatory show a huge increase in water within the Tulare Lake Basin.

Photos showed the dramatic transformation at Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir. Some lakes, like Tulare Lake in the Central Valley, have also re-emerged after being drained years ago.