• Lisa Owens Viani

    is a freelance writer specializing in water and other environmental issues. She’s a contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine and the co-founder of Raptors Are The Solution, a nonprofit working to save birds of prey and other wildlife.

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A lost lake, long disappeared into the dirt, wows California by reappearing 40 years later.

Return of a Lost Lake

On the heels of the worst drought in 1,200 years, Tulare Lake, at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley, filled and filled again in the heavy rain... Read more.