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Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park
- Area
- 627 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2001
Overview
- Designation
- Wildland Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2001
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
30 distinct species · 40 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park : 9 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology18 basins · 0 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
56,3km
Basins crossed
18
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
5 740km²
Discharge in basins
8,8m³/s
Mean precip.
586mm/an
Mean T°
0,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,09
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
264mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 755m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Waiparous Creeksub-area717,5 km²overlap162.66 km²26%
- Bassin de Elbow Riversub-area1 193,1 km²overlap86.07 km²14%
- Bassin de Highwood Riversub-area500,1 km²overlap83.84 km²13%
- Bassin de Ghost Riversub-area944,1 km²overlap59.65 km²10%
- Bassin de Cataract Creeksub-area235 km²overlap53.67 km²9%
- Bassin de Red Deer Riversub-area992,2 km²overlap51.49 km²8%
- Bassin de Highwood Riversub-area589,5 km²overlap34.96 km²6%
- Bassin de Sheep Riversub-area1 593,2 km²overlap23.54 km²4%
- Bassin de Bow Riversub-area392 km²overlap22.14 km²4%
9 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Oldman Riversub-area344,3 km²overlap15.80 km²3%
- Bassin de Fallentimber Creeksub-area508 km²overlap8.51 km²1%
- Bassin de Willow Creeksub-area2 501,2 km²overlap8.17 km²1%
- Bassin de Stimson Creeksub-area491,1 km²overlap7.77 km²1%
- Bassin de Livingstone Riversub-area340 km²overlap3.80 km²1%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area491,7 km²overlap2.64 km²0%
- Bassin de Bow Riversub-area485,4 km²overlap1.80 km²0%
- Bassin de Fording Riversub-area611,3 km²overlap0.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Panther Riversub-area650,4 km²overlap0.07 km²0%
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Elbow Riverord 3len here14.92 km12%total129 km
- Cataract Creekord 3len here12.55 km20%total64 km
- Canyon Creekord 2len here6.32 km18%total35 km
- Waiparous Creekord 2len here5.24 km10%total54 km
- Old Fort Creekord 2len here3.78 km23%total16 km
- South Ghost Riverord 2len here2.75 km10%total28 km
- Threepoint Creekord 2len here2.49 km9%total28 km
- Ghost Riverord 3len here2.14 km2%total106 km
- Baril Creekord 1len here1.32 km13%total10 km
- Little Elbow Riverord 2len here1.24 km6%total20 km
- Head Creekord 2len here0.99 km10%total10 km
- McPhail Creekord 1len here0.84 km10%total8 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Nihahi Creekord 1len here0.81 km18%total4 km
- Cougar Creekord 1len here0.70 km5%total15 km
- Salter Creekord 1len here0.14 km3%total5 km
- Ford Creekord 1len here0.07 km2%total4 km
- Bishop Creekord 1len here0.03 km0%total7 km
- Burnt Timber Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal54 km
- North Burnt Timber Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal21 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
- 51.38405, -115.29986
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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.