National Conservation Area · usa
Black Rock Desert / High Rock Canyon
- Area
- 3 301 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- National Conservation Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
905 distinct species · 6 144 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Black Rock Desert / High Rock Canyon : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology19 basins · 6 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
266,8km
Lake surface here
3,79km²
Basins crossed
19
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
41 062km²
Discharge in basins
47,4m³/s
Mean precip.
247mm/an
Mean T°
8,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,78
Max snow
14%
Mean runoff
71mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 544m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de High Rock Creeksub-area883,3 km²overlap563.57 km²17%
- Bassin de Fly Creeksub-area441,4 km²overlap439.05 km²13%
- Basin #18380sub-area379,2 km²overlap379.69 km²12%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area802,2 km²overlap308.26 km²9%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area2 431,5 km²overlap186.98 km²6%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area446,4 km²overlap174.72 km²5%
- Bassin de Willow Creeksub-area211,8 km²overlap171.31 km²5%
- Bassin de Warm Springs Creeksub-area227,2 km²overlap159.76 km²5%
- Bassin de Warm Springs Creeksub-area243,1 km²overlap155.26 km²5%
10 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Donnelly Creeksub-area140 km²overlap140.18 km²4%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area228,8 km²overlap139.42 km²4%
- Bassin de Red Mountain Creeksub-area814,2 km²overlap113.70 km²3%
- Bassin de Cottonwood Creeksub-area602,4 km²overlap104.94 km²3%
- Bassin de East Creeksub-area1 868,1 km²overlap97.54 km²3%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area187,1 km²overlap76.62 km²2%
- Bassin de Quinn Riversub-area541,7 km²overlap39.51 km²1%
- Bassin de Humboldt Riversub-area1 757,2 km²overlap34.10 km²1%
- Bassin de Little High Rock Creeksub-area12,4 km²overlap12.38 km²0%
- Bassin de Trout Creeksub-area5 814,8 km²overlap3.85 km²0%
Lakes (6, top by area)
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Quinn Riverord 5len here52.42 km12%total424 km
- High Rock Creekord 4len here44.85 km100%total45 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 3len here31.79 km45%total70 km
- Willow Creekord 3len here23.86 km86%total28 km
- Warm Springs Creekord 5len here20.94 km68%total31 km
- Fly Creekord 5len here18.62 km100%total19 km
- Little High Rock Creekord 4len here14.17 km84%total17 km
- Yellow Rock Canon Creekord 2len here12.79 km96%total13 km
- Wall Canyon Creekord 3len here10.03 km31%total32 km
- Little Smoky Creekord 2len here9.39 km100%total9 km
- Donnelly Creekord 1len here9.14 km100%total9 km
- Mahogany Creekord 2len here8.87 km100%total9 km
3 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
- 41.13891, -119.13035
- 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.