Wilderness · usa
High Peaks
- Area
- 834 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
0 - Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 250 distinct species · 54 740 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 High Peaks : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 · 13 lakes · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
169,4km
Lake surface here
4,54km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 931km²
Discharge in basins
25,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 074mm/an
Mean T°
4,2°C
Moisture idx
0,23
Max snow
38%
Mean runoff
700mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
617m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de East Branch Ausable Riversub-area1 365,3 km²overlap235.66 km²28%
- Bassin de Moose Creeksub-area219,6 km²overlap219.69 km²26%
- Bassin de Hudson Riversub-area642,6 km²overlap173.04 km²21%
- Bassin de Raquette Riversub-area303,6 km²overlap86.97 km²10%
- Bassin de Saranac Riversub-area1 930,4 km²overlap82.45 km²10%
- Bassin de Raquette Riversub-area796,2 km²overlap24.86 km²3%
- Bassin de Boreas Riversub-area228 km²overlap11.30 km²1%
Lakes (13, top by area)
- Long Lakearea15,6 km²avg depth22.1 m
- First Pondarea8,5 km²avg depth13.5 m
- Newcomb Lakearea1,6 km²avg depth8.1 m
- Lac 1046663area0,9 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1046523area0,8 km²avg depth8.6 m
- Lac 1046670area0,6 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1046060area0,5 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1046769area0,5 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1046398area0,2 km²avg depth7.1 m
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- Moose Creekord 5len here21.81 km15%total146 km
- Cold Riverord 4len here17.16 km52%total33 km
- Cold Brookord 3len here9.77 km25%total40 km
- Calkins Brookord 1len here9.06 km100%total9 km
- Seward Brookord 2len here8.98 km100%total9 km
- Opalescent Riverord 3len here7.83 km35%total22 km
- Klondike Brookord 1len here7.55 km100%total8 km
- Roaring Brookord 2len here7.25 km13%total56 km
- Indian Pass Brookord 1len here6.96 km76%total9 km
- Chubb Riverord 2len here6.59 km38%total17 km
- Ampersand Brookord 2len here6.15 km42%total15 km
- Johns Brookord 2len here5.84 km53%total11 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Boulder Brookord 1len here5.30 km35%total15 km
- Saranac Riverord 4len here4.97 km3%total179 km
- Indian Pass Brookord 1len here4.46 km100%total4 km
- Raquette Riverord 5len here4.43 km1%total341 km
- Marcy Brookord 2len here4.31 km44%total10 km
- Phelps Brookord 1len here4.22 km100%total4 km
- Calamity Brookord 2len here3.64 km100%total4 km
- Santanoni Brookord 1len here3.56 km72%total5 km
- Ward Brookord 1len here3.12 km62%total5 km
- East Branch Cold Brookord 1len here2.93 km78%total4 km
- MacIntyre Brookord 2len here2.89 km100%total3 km
- Cascade Brookord 1len here2.21 km27%total8 km
- South Meadow Brookord 2len here1.90 km100%total2 km
- Newcomb Riverord 3len here1.76 km13%total14 km
- Slide Brookord 1len here1.53 km27%total6 km
- Hudson Riverord 6len here1.30 km0%total616 km
- Dudley Brookord 1len here1.07 km18%total6 km
- West Branch Ausable Riverord 4len here0.44 km1%total58 km
- East Branch Ausable Riverord 3len here0.30 km0%total70 km
- Stony Creekord 3len here0.12 km0%total320 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
- 44.13689, -74.07620
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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.