Wildland Provincial Park · can
Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park
- Area
- 801 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1996
Overview
- Designation
- Wildland Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1996
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
979 distinct species · 8 245 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park : 18 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 23 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
108,2km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
7 906km²
Discharge in basins
6,9m³/s
Mean precip.
588mm/an
Mean T°
0,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,08
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
287mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 784m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Elbow Riversub-area1 193,1 km²overlap292.38 km²37%
- Bassin de Kananaskis Riversub-area955,8 km²overlap188.29 km²24%
- Bassin de Sheep Riversub-area1 593,2 km²overlap160.18 km²20%
- Bassin de Highwood Riversub-area500,1 km²overlap139.12 km²17%
- Bassin de Highwood Riversub-area589,5 km²overlap19.78 km²2%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area491,7 km²overlap0.61 km²0%
- Bassin de Bow Riversub-area1 448,5 km²overlap0.47 km²0%
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- Little Elbow Riverord 2len here13.55 km69%total20 km
- Sheep Riverord 4len here13.43 km9%total146 km
- Storm Creekord 2len here12.44 km100%total12 km
- Elbow Riverord 3len here11.78 km9%total129 km
- Mist Creekord 1len here7.54 km100%total8 km
- Junction Creekord 2len here7.30 km77%total9 km
- Porcupine Creekord 3len here6.41 km30%total22 km
- Wasootch Creekord 1len here6.31 km95%total7 km
- Evan-Thomas Creekord 2len here4.99 km54%total9 km
- Shoulder Creekord 1len here4.73 km100%total5 km
- Cougar Creekord 1len here4.18 km28%total15 km
- Nihahi Creekord 1len here3.68 km82%total4 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Rocky Creekord 1len here3.39 km72%total5 km
- Burns Creekord 1len here1.75 km64%total3 km
- Lineham Creekord 2len here1.65 km16%total10 km
- Trap Creekord 1len here1.37 km100%total1 km
- Canyon Creekord 2len here1.32 km4%total35 km
- Bluerock Creekord 1len here1.24 km19%total7 km
- Picklejar Creekord 2len here0.93 km23%total4 km
- Head Creekord 2len here0.16 km2%total10 km
- Kananaskis Riverord 3len here≈ tangenttotal51 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
- 50.73859, -115.01502
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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.