Wildland Provincial Park · can
Birch Mountains Wildland Provincial Park
- Area
- 1 366 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- Wildland Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Lands Operations Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
341 distinct species · 878 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Mountains Wildland Provincial Park : 12 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 50 lakes · 3 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
85,4km
Lake surface here
117,25km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 717km²
Discharge in basins
3,8m³/s
Mean precip.
455mm/an
Mean T°
-2,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,24
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
36mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
657m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Mikkwa Riversub-area1 868,5 km²overlap534.90 km²39%
- Bassin de Birch Riversub-area2 602,2 km²overlap422.86 km²31%
- Bassin de Ells Riversub-area2 717,1 km²overlap367.43 km²27%
- Bassin de Liége Riversub-area1 379,8 km²overlap34.02 km²2%
- Bassin de Snipe Creeksub-area486,2 km²overlap4.54 km²0%
- Bassin de Sputina Riversub-area483 km²overlap2.12 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Namur Lakearea43,3 km²avg depth13.2 m
- Gardiner Lakesarea24,1 km²avg depth10.2 m
- Legend Lakearea16,9 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Big Island Lakearea15,9 km²avg depth7.3 m
- Sand Lakearea14,6 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Birch Lakesarea6,6 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lake #71231area2,8 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lake #70992area1,6 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Mahigun Lakearea1,6 km²avg depth2.4 m
41 more lakes
- Lake #70562area1,5 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Whyetnow Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lake #70485area1,1 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 732156area1 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 734596area0,8 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lac 735048area0,8 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 732373area0,8 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 730718area0,7 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 731065area0,6 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 734753area0,5 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 731119area0,5 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 729880area0,5 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 730748area0,4 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 734934area0,4 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 737833area0,4 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 730174area0,4 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 733750area0,4 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 734709area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 734399area0,3 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 732533area0,3 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 737667area0,3 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 732395area0,3 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 730076area0,3 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 730835area0,3 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 733463area0,2 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 732374area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 735286area0,2 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 735257area0,2 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 733107area0,2 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 731603area0,2 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 731642area0,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 732612area0,2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 732423area0,2 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lac 736431area0,2 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 736674area0,2 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 735481area0,2 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 730951area0,2 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 732902area0,2 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 733059area0,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 731213area0,2 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 731898area0,2 km²avg depth2.9 m
Rivers / streams (3, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 57.52068, -112.92458
- Open in maps
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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.