Wilderness Study Area · USA
Alpine Lakes
- Area
- 61 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1998
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1998
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
42 distinct species · 49 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Alpine Lakes : 5 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 3 interactions GloBI documentées sur 1 type (connectance 30.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 1 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
12,3km
Lake surface here
0,13km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
677km²
Discharge in basins
2,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 751mm/an
Mean T°
4,1°C
Moisture idx
0,58
Max snow
47%
Mean runoff
1 096mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 225m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Cle Elum Riversub-area573,3 km²overlap42.41 km²70%
- Bassin de Yakima Riversub-area676,7 km²overlap15.93 km²26%
- Bassin de Icicle Creeksub-area551,3 km²overlap2.57 km²4%
- Bassin de Peshastin Creeksub-area345,9 km²overlap0.02 km²0%
- Bassin de North Fork Teanaway Riversub-area534,4 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Scatter Creekord 1len here3.39 km83%total4 km
- Cle Elum Riverord 4len here2.08 km4%total53 km
- Mineral Creekord 3len here1.89 km6%total34 km
- Fortune Creekord 6len here1.46 km18%total8 km
- Skeeter Creekord 1len here1.24 km10%total12 km
- Cooper Riverord 3len here0.79 km7%total11 km
- Delate Creekord 3len here0.72 km9%total8 km
- West Fork Box Canyon Creekord 1len here0.42 km16%total3 km
- Silver Creekord 5len here0.29 km0%total171 km
- Tired Creekord 1len here0.03 km6%total0 km
- Camp Creekord 7len here≈ tangenttotal339 km
- Kachess Riverord 3len here≈ tangenttotal19 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 47.50474, -121.02318
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.