Wildlife Management Area · usa
Blackwater
- Area
- 248 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Management Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- State Department of Natural Resources ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
757 distinct species · 4 270 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Blackwater : 36 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
44,5km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 722km²
Discharge in basins
19,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 297mm/an
Mean T°
8,5°C
Moisture idx
0,22
Max snow
18%
Mean runoff
637mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
832m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Blackwater Riversub-area1 266,7 km²overlap98.83 km²40%
- Bassin de Cheat Riversub-area422,4 km²overlap79.79 km²32%
- Bassin de Horseshoe Runsub-area148,9 km²overlap56.38 km²23%
- Bassin de Shavers Forksub-area518,9 km²overlap8.96 km²4%
- Bassin de Cheat Riversub-area22,6 km²overlap3.65 km²1%
- Bassin de Youghiogheny Riversub-area1 108,3 km²overlap0.20 km²0%
- Bassin de Tygart Valley Riversub-area417,1 km²overlap0.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Tygart Valley Riversub-area1 151,2 km²overlap0.12 km²0%
- Bassin de North Branch Potomac Riversub-area722,9 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Horseshoe Runord 3len here12.56 km51%total25 km
- South Fork Red Runord 1len here9.38 km98%total10 km
- Left Fork Clover Runord 2len here6.83 km80%total8 km
- Clover Runord 2len here3.60 km82%total4 km
- Cheat Riverord 4len here3.53 km2%total166 km
- Blackwater Riverord 4len here2.66 km1%total196 km
- Goodwin Runord 1len here1.54 km43%total4 km
- Black Forkord 4len here1.28 km6%total21 km
- Dry Fork of the Cheatord 3len here1.02 km2%total62 km
- Haddix Runord 2len here0.76 km30%total2 km
- North Fork Blaackwater Riverord 1len here0.70 km15%total5 km
- Otter Creekord 4len here0.24 km0%total1381 km
4 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
- 39.06155, -79.52551
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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.