and the Cascade Mountains leeward forests to the west. To the south lies the Columbia Plateau shrubland, the only xeric shrubland ecoregion in Canada. The lake hosts a variety of fish including kokanee salmon, rainbow trout, and smallmouth bass. The most recent forming of thicker ice occurred in the mid-1990s and 2014. Footnotes References Penticton Similkameen Division Yale Land District Lakes of the Okanagan