Designated - Wild · usa
Birch Creek
- Area
- 279 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- Designated - Wild
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
249 distinct species · 731 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Birch Creek : 29 espèces + 5 bulles famille, 45 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 5 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
177,4km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
6 252km²
Discharge in basins
4,8m³/s
Mean precip.
229mm/an
Mean T°
-6,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,56
Max snow
59%
Mean runoff
126mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
669m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area2 423,9 km²overlap195.18 km²70%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area267,6 km²overlap49.39 km²18%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area67,7 km²overlap15.31 km²5%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area1 091,1 km²overlap13.56 km²5%
- Bassin de South Fork Birch Creeksub-area846,9 km²overlap4.63 km²2%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area369,4 km²overlap1.02 km²0%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Birch Creekord 5len here134.11 km31%total434 km
- Fryingpan Creekord 4len here11.91 km58%total20 km
- Clums Forkord 4len here6.97 km17%total42 km
- Great Unknown Creekord 4len here4.72 km38%total12 km
- North Fork Birch Creekord 2len here3.94 km54%total7 km
- South Fork Birch Creekord 4len here3.69 km7%total53 km
- McLean Creekord 1len here2.96 km38%total8 km
- Wolf Creekord 4len here2.09 km2%total95 km
- Twelvemile Creekord 4len here2.01 km10%total20 km
- Denver Creekord 2len here1.98 km26%total8 km
- Harrington Forkord 3len here1.58 km6%total29 km
- Thomas Creekord 3len here1.04 km1%total81 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 65.44648, -144.27474
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.