[2] By road and trail, the eastern end is about 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Fort St. James.

[3] The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) journals record the name as Yokogh, Jokoh, Petit Lac or Little Lake.

The surface area is 78 square kilometres (30 sq mi) and elevation is 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) above sea level.

[6] Important locations are Yekoozdli (former village), Tadulh (the narrows, where cache pits and possibly pit houses are located), Noo Tsui and Noo Tsula islands, and Scooby Island (a.k.a.

[1] Around 1800, Father Morice described the population near the lake as a few small bands of fishermen subsisting mostly on whitefish.

[8] By the early 1800s, the tribe lived at the Yekoozdli village site on the creek at the east end of the lake.

As well as a source of hay for cows and horses, the area provides lake trout, whitefish, kokanee, moose, bear, deer, duck, and beaver to hunters.

[citation needed] On a small island called Ruby Rock, the Joseph brothers have a hunting/fishing guide outfitting company.

At night, guests can hear loons calling in the distance, and wolves and coyotes howling.