Wilderness · usa
Granite Chief
- Area
- 115 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Non-Governmental Organization ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
365 distinct species · 891 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 53 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 Granite Chief : 35 espèces reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 21 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 6 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
28,3km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
1 829km²
Discharge in basins
2,5m³/s
Mean precip.
1 291mm/an
Mean T°
8,2°C
Moisture idx
0,18
Max snow
40%
Mean runoff
623mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 718m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Rubicon Riversub-area819,6 km²overlap73.86 km²64%
- Bassin de Middle Fork American Riversub-area297,3 km²overlap39.68 km²34%
- Bassin de Truckee Riversub-area530,2 km²overlap0.81 km²1%
- Bassin de Trout Creeksub-area986,5 km²overlap0.45 km²0%
- Bassin de North Fork American Riversub-area901,4 km²overlap0.38 km²0%
Rivers / streams (6, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 39.13768, -120.28799
- 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.