SALT0N SEA SOS

摘要

When the Colorado River flooded and burst through an irrigation canal in 1905, it created California's largest inland lake, the Saltan Sea. It filled what had been the lower basin of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla, which had disappeared hundreds of years earlier. Both the original lake and today's "sea" are part of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian tribe's territory: They fished in both water bodies, and many of their ancestral songs and stories revolve around them. Today, the tribe still owns sections of the Salton Sea, along with government agencies and irrigation districts.