have time to get down into the reserve to see the unique system of lakes.  It was easy to appreciate why this place was made into an Ecological reserve however as the geology of the canyon and the terrain results in a valuable set of ecosystems.  We were in the area of Kalamalka lake Park where the locals have installed equipment on climbing cliffs .  The heavy use of the park makes one wonder when access by mountain bikes and ATVs may start to be a threat to the reserve itself. In the afternoon Roseanne drove us out to meet up with Linda Kennedy for a trip  to the summit of Campbell Brown Ecological Reserve and a walk down thought the full length of the reserve on an old track made by her grandfather when this was his ranch many years ago. Her father gave the land to the province in 1975 and it was preserved by making it into an ecological reserve. Linda Kennedy with lichen on the lower branches of Ponderosa Pine The seed pods of Mariposa lilies dotted the grassland. Here, as in most of the Okanagan reserves we visited, the blue-bunch wheatgrass survived in abundance. However it is being encroached upon in many areas by the aggressive introduced knapweeds. BC parks and many of the wardens have waged war on these invasives with pulling and removal campaigns and  and with the introduction of a biological control beetle.  The surrounding land however has massive growths of this