Wilderness · usa
Eagle Cap
- Area
- 1 442 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1964
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1964
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 102 distinct species · 53 880 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Eagle Cap : 21 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, 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).
Hydrology6 basins · 7 lakes · 33 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
233,1km
Lake surface here
1,07km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
4 210km²
Discharge in basins
12,1m³/s
Mean precip.
584mm/an
Mean T°
3,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,32
Max snow
43%
Mean runoff
267mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 536m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Wallowa Riversub-area2 480,6 km²overlap1005.92 km²70%
- Bassin de Big Sheep Creeksub-area2 194,5 km²overlap228.92 km²16%
- Bassin de Eagle Creeksub-area515,6 km²overlap138.95 km²10%
- Bassin de Catherine Creeksub-area729,9 km²overlap50.26 km²3%
- Bassin de Pine Creeksub-area774 km²overlap17.32 km²1%
- Bassin de Grande Ronde Riversub-area1 523,7 km²overlap0.28 km²0%
Lakes (7, top by area)
Rivers / streams (33, ord ≥ 4)
- Minam Riverord 3len here21.66 km61%total35 km
- Garwood Creekord 2len here18.31 km100%total18 km
- North Fork Imnaha Riverord 3len here16.69 km50%total33 km
- North Minam Riverord 2len here14.75 km100%total15 km
- South Fork Imnaha Riverord 2len here14.47 km100%total14 km
- Blowout Basin Creekord 1len here11.68 km100%total12 km
- Trout Creekord 6len here10.49 km3%total345 km
- Little Minam Riverord 2len here9.94 km100%total10 km
- Coon Creekord 2len here9.12 km49%total19 km
- BC Creekord 2len here8.49 km83%total10 km
- Hurricane Creekord 1len here8.39 km25%total33 km
- Faun Creekord 3len here8.03 km100%total8 km
21 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Huckleberry Creekord 3len here7.50 km24%total32 km
- Lowrey Gulchord 2len here7.49 km100%total7 km
- Lostine Riverord 2len here7.45 km37%total20 km
- Big Canyon Creekord 2len here6.77 km47%total15 km
- Goat Creekord 4len here6.54 km5%total119 km
- North Fork Catherine Creekord 2len here5.42 km35%total15 km
- Lake Creekord 6len here5.21 km1%total427 km
- Trail Creekord 3len here4.96 km4%total135 km
- Bench Canyonord 1len here4.09 km31%total13 km
- Bowman Creekord 2len here3.88 km5%total83 km
- Royal Purple Creekord 1len here3.32 km50%total7 km
- North Fork of Middle Fork Imnaha Riverord 1len here3.26 km100%total3 km
- West Fork Wallowa Riverord 1len here3.22 km100%total3 km
- East Fork Elk Creekord 1len here2.45 km100%total2 km
- China Cap Creekord 1len here2.08 km100%total2 km
- Silver Creekord 5len here1.86 km1%total171 km
- Salt Creekord 4len here1.45 km1%total110 km
- Dobbin Creekord 1len here1.31 km16%total8 km
- West Eagle Creekord 1len here1.26 km12%total10 km
- McCully Creekord 2len here0.95 km4%total23 km
- Kettle Creekord 1len here0.57 km7%total8 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
- 45.25551, -117.52889
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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.