Wilderness · usa
Desolation
- Area
- 259 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1969
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1969
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 613 distinct species · 26 747 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Desolation : 27 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology3 basins · 8 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
32,2km
Lake surface here
4,44km²
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
2 198km²
Discharge in basins
4,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 070mm/an
Mean T°
7,9°C
Moisture idx
0,01
Max snow
37%
Mean runoff
518mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 778m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (8, top by area)
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Rubicon Riverord 4len here10.63 km9%total115 km
- Miller Creekord 2len here4.51 km31%total14 km
- Glen Alpine Creekord 1len here4.48 km24%total19 km
- Meeks Creekord 1len here3.48 km38%total9 km
- Phipps Creekord 1len here2.80 km100%total3 km
- Eagle Creekord 1len here2.51 km36%total7 km
- Bassi Forkord 1len here1.63 km10%total16 km
- Pyramid Creekord 1len here0.85 km29%total3 km
- Jones Fork Silver Creekord 3len here0.68 km2%total28 km
- Cascade Creekord 1len here0.47 km9%total5 km
- General Creekord 1len here0.20 km2%total10 km
- Lyons Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal20 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
- 38.91881, -120.17272
- 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.