Provide opportunities for diverse, safe, quality, outdoor recreational experiences for the public.
Preserve, conserve, and protect the integrity of natural, cultural, and scenic resources.
Provide opportunities to enhance public appreciation and understanding about the area’s significant resources.
SIGNIFICANCE
It offers a wide variety of recreation opportunities in a diverse natural setting on a 144-mile-long lake that is bordered by 312 miles of publicly owned shoreline that is available for public use.
It contains a large section of the upper Columbia River and a record of continuous human occupation dating back more than 9,000 years.
It is contained within three distinct geologic provinces – the Okanogan Highlands, the Columbia Plateau, and the Kootenay Arc – which have been sculpted by the Ice Age Floods
