Wildland Provincial Park · can
Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park
- Area
- 373 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1998
Overview
- Designation
- Wildland Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1998
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
917 distinct species · 12 047 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 113 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 20.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 4 lakes · 11 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
41,6km
Lake surface here
0,34km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
5 740km²
Discharge in basins
21,3m³/s
Mean precip.
607mm/an
Mean T°
-0,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,02
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
261mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 903m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (11, ord ≥ 4)
- Bow Riverord 6len here16.97 km2%total878 km
- Cougar Creekord 1len here7.65 km52%total15 km
- Pigeon Creekord 2len here5.88 km73%total8 km
- Wind Creekord 1len here2.80 km100%total3 km
- North Ribbon Creekord 1len here2.26 km84%total3 km
- Lorette Creekord 1len here1.77 km72%total2 km
- Heart Creekord 1len here1.58 km73%total2 km
- Ribbon Creekord 3len here0.88 km7%total12 km
- Marmot Creekord 1len here0.87 km37%total2 km
- Kananaskis Riverord 3len here0.56 km1%total51 km
- Spring Creekord 4len here0.43 km0%total267 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
- 50.98392, -115.21847
- 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.