The Pa’ashi Speaker Series focusing on water in the San Joaquin Valley wraps up on Wednesday, April 22, with a free lecture by North Fork Mono Tribe Chairman Ron Goode.
Goode’s talk is titled “Tulare Lake: a natural design and water storage which has climate change effects.” He will speak at 5:30 p.m. in the Ponderosa Hall at College of the Sequoias in Visalia. An outdoor reception will follow.
Goode is a retired community college professor in ethnic studies and the author of the 1992 book “Cultural Traditions Endangered.” He is the co-founder of the California State Tribal Water Summit, a periodic event held since 2009 by the Department of Water Resources that aims to create a roadmap of strategies for preserving Native water rights and the sustainable management of the state’s waters…