Browne Lake Provincial Park
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Template:Geobox Browne Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 22 km east-southeast of Kelowna in the Okanagan Highland, near Big White Ski Resort and between the heads of Hydraulic and Grouse Creeks.[1]
The park was established in 2004 by Order-in-Council, to protect the Interior Douglas-fir-Montane Spruce transition forest.[2]
Browne Lake Ecological Reserve, comprising 114 hectares, lies to its northwest, and had been established in 1973, to protect a wet meadow ecosystem and surrounding forest in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone.[3]
References
- ^ "Browne Lake Park". BC Geographical Names.
- ^ "Browne Lake Provincial Park". British Columbia, Ministry of Environment. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
- ^ "Browne Lake Ecological Reserve". BC Geographical Names.