Wilderness · usa
Dark Canyon
- Area
- 188 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
230 distinct species · 527 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 54 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 Dark Canyon : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 0 lakes · 10 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
69,6km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
185 433km²
Discharge in basins
44,9m³/s
Mean precip.
288mm/an
Mean T°
9,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,75
Max snow
7%
Mean runoff
17mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 915m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (10, ord ≥ 4)
- Dark Canyonord 3len here23.60 km46%total51 km
- Trail Canyonord 3len here14.87 km32%total46 km
- Poison Canyonord 2len here7.47 km82%total9 km
- Woodenshoe Canyonord 2len here7.40 km100%total7 km
- Horse Pasture Canyonord 1len here6.28 km87%total7 km
- Peavine Canyonord 1len here4.71 km89%total5 km
- Rig Canyonord 2len here2.40 km89%total3 km
- Kigalia Canyonord 1len here1.32 km88%total2 km
- Deadman Canyonord 2len here0.89 km10%total9 km
- Cherry Canyonord 1len here0.69 km17%total4 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
- 37.76653, -109.98660
- 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.