Wilderness · usa
Great Bear
- Area
- 1 161 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1978
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1978
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
505 distinct species · 1 523 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Great Bear : 29 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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 · 5 lakes · 44 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
238,1km
Lake surface here
1,25km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
7 127km²
Discharge in basins
33,9m³/s
Mean precip.
700mm/an
Mean T°
2,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,09
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
609mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 690m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Middle Fork Flathead Riversub-area2 934,2 km²overlap863.10 km²74%
- Bassin de South Fork Flathead Riversub-area1 395,1 km²overlap241.70 km²21%
- Bassin de Spotted Bear Riversub-area484,4 km²overlap56.07 km²5%
- Bassin de Badger Creeksub-area685,1 km²overlap0.35 km²0%
- Bassin de Flathead Riversub-area137 km²overlap0.28 km²0%
Lakes (5, top by area)
Rivers / streams (44, ord ≥ 4)
- Middle Fork Flathead Riverord 4len here52.38 km38%total140 km
- Dolly Varden Creekord 3len here13.53 km100%total14 km
- Dean Creekord 1len here11.69 km100%total12 km
- Schafer Creekord 2len here10.73 km63%total17 km
- Lake Creekord 6len here10.63 km2%total427 km
- Lodgepole Creekord 2len here9.84 km34%total29 km
- Morrison Creekord 3len here8.96 km32%total28 km
- Long Creekord 4len here8.68 km8%total103 km
- Bergsicker Creekord 1len here7.29 km100%total7 km
- Bradley Creekord 4len here6.51 km41%total16 km
- Stanton Creekord 1len here6.08 km69%total9 km
- Sheep Creekord 5len here5.54 km2%total260 km
32 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Granite Creekord 3len here5.43 km2%total274 km
- Dirtyface Creekord 2len here5.36 km100%total5 km
- Cy Creekord 1len here5.15 km100%total5 km
- Twentyfive Mile Creekord 2len here5.12 km21%total25 km
- Charlie Creekord 4len here4.89 km100%total5 km
- Moose Creekord 3len here4.84 km3%total142 km
- South Fork Flathead Riverord 4len here4.79 km2%total293 km
- Argosy Creekord 1len here4.69 km100%total5 km
- Elk Creekord 6len here4.55 km2%total210 km
- Tunnel Creekord 3len here3.67 km37%total10 km
- Miner Creekord 1len here3.53 km75%total5 km
- Java Creekord 1len here3.37 km100%total3 km
- Dryad Creekord 1len here3.28 km100%total3 km
- Roaring Creekord 4len here3.20 km6%total54 km
- Snake Creekord 4len here2.63 km17%total16 km
- Riverside Creekord 1len here2.63 km52%total5 km
- West Fork Schafer Creekord 1len here2.58 km100%total3 km
- Devil Creekord 1len here2.44 km26%total9 km
- Porter Creekord 3len here2.42 km7%total32 km
- Whistler Creekord 1len here2.32 km100%total2 km
- Essex Creekord 1len here2.32 km31%total7 km
- Deerlick Creekord 1len here1.28 km14%total9 km
- Cox Creekord 3len here1.23 km5%total26 km
- Spotted Bear Riverord 3len here1.20 km2%total59 km
- Castle Creekord 3len here1.16 km4%total28 km
- Tumbler Creekord 2len here1.06 km17%total6 km
- Paola Creekord 1len here0.54 km8%total7 km
- Tiger Creekord 1len here0.23 km4%total6 km
- Great Bear Creekord 2len here0.22 km4%total5 km
- Twin Creekord 4len here0.12 km1%total16 km
- Mule Creekord 4len here0.05 km0%total17 km
- Ousel Creekord 4len here≈ tangenttotal2 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
- 48.19318, -113.54216
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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.