Flathead Watershed Area · can
Flathead Watershed Area
- Area
- 871 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2019
Overview
- Designation
- Flathead Watershed Area
- Established
- 2019
- Managing authority
- Government of British Columbia
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
809 distinct species · 5 399 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Flathead Watershed Area : 25 espèces reliées par 109 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 3 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
189,6km
Lake surface here
0,18km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
3 437km²
Discharge in basins
17,9m³/s
Mean precip.
718mm/an
Mean T°
1,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,00
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
443mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 728m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de North Fork Flathead Riversub-area679,3 km²overlap448.05 km²51%
- Bassin de Sage Creeksub-area226,8 km²overlap175.57 km²20%
- Bassin de North Fork Flathead Riversub-area2 083,5 km²overlap144.57 km²17%
- Bassin de Howell Creeksub-area244 km²overlap52.22 km²6%
- Bassin de Couldrey Creeksub-area204 km²overlap37.63 km²4%
- Bassin de Wigwam Riversub-area856,1 km²overlap6.09 km²1%
- Bassin de Castle Riversub-area1 232,7 km²overlap4.56 km²1%
- Bassin de Michel Creeksub-area636,7 km²overlap0.81 km²0%
- Bassin de Blakiston Creeksub-area159,2 km²overlap0.72 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- North Fork Flathead Riverord 4len here81.52 km37%total220 km
- Sage Creekord 2len here15.83 km48%total33 km
- Kishenehn Creekord 4len here10.63 km47%total23 km
- Akamina Creekord 2len here10.26 km95%total11 km
- Harvey Creekord 2len here9.10 km24%total38 km
- Sunkist Brookord 2len here7.30 km41%total18 km
- Howell Creekord 3len here7.24 km30%total24 km
- Spruce Creekord 4len here6.99 km16%total43 km
- Twentynine Mile Creekord 1len here6.43 km82%total8 km
- Kishinena Creekord 2len here6.29 km100%total6 km
- Roche Creekord 1len here4.66 km97%total5 km
- Ruby Creekord 1len here4.61 km34%total14 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Cate Creekord 1len here3.56 km49%total7 km
- Middlepass Creekord 2len here2.68 km25%total11 km
- See Creekord 1len here2.55 km97%total3 km
- Calder Creekord 1len here2.47 km81%total3 km
- Haig Brookord 1len here2.39 km65%total4 km
- Beavertail Creekord 1len here2.28 km69%total3 km
- Commerce Creekord 1len here1.84 km14%total13 km
- Couldrey Creekord 2len here0.91 km4%total21 km
- Starvation Creekord 4len here0.08 km0%total22 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
- 49.22628, -114.67744
- 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.