Wilderness · usa
High Uintas
- Area
- 1 837 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
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 178 distinct species · 11 719 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Uintas : 30 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 17 lakes · 34 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
292,4km
Lake surface here
4,41km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
39 272km²
Discharge in basins
2,5m³/s
Mean precip.
443mm/an
Mean T°
2,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,43
Max snow
59%
Mean runoff
55mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 601m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Lake Fork Riversub-area1 301,5 km²overlap498.52 km²27%
- Bassin de Duchesne Riversub-area1 718,6 km²overlap337.69 km²18%
- Bassin de Uinta Riversub-area2 669,3 km²overlap333.85 km²18%
- Bassin de Henrys Forksub-area1 506,4 km²overlap277.62 km²15%
- Bassin de East Red Castle Creeksub-area1 185 km²overlap118.40 km²6%
- Bassin de Bear Riversub-area2 344,6 km²overlap107.73 km²6%
- Bassin de Little East Forksub-area155,1 km²overlap106.96 km²6%
- Bassin de West Fork Blacks Forksub-area174,3 km²overlap54.64 km²3%
- Bassin de Green Riversub-area1 151,5 km²overlap1.30 km²0%
Lakes (17, top by area)
- Lac 1055429area0,7 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 1055430area0,7 km²avg depth5.5 m
- Lac 1055160area0,4 km²avg depth6.1 m
- Lac 1055158area0,3 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1055378area0,3 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lac 1055434area0,2 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 1055264area0,2 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 1055397area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 1055297area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
8 more lakes
Rivers / streams (34, ord ≥ 4)
- Uinta Riverord 4len here29.42 km26%total113 km
- Yellowstone Creekord 3len here22.57 km68%total33 km
- Lake Fork Riverord 3len here19.56 km17%total114 km
- Little East Forkord 2len here14.54 km73%total20 km
- East Red Castle Creekord 2len here14.02 km45%total31 km
- Atwood Creekord 2len here13.83 km100%total14 km
- Henrys Forkord 6len here12.90 km8%total153 km
- Fall Creekord 2len here12.69 km38%total34 km
- Swift Creekord 2len here11.66 km95%total12 km
- Oweep Creekord 1len here10.86 km100%total11 km
- Shale Creekord 2len here10.28 km100%total10 km
- West Fork Rock Creekord 2len here9.76 km100%total10 km
22 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Garfield Creekord 2len here8.77 km31%total28 km
- East Fork Rock Creekord 2len here8.49 km100%total9 km
- Stillwater Forkord 2len here8.27 km41%total20 km
- West Fork Blacks Forkord 2len here8.26 km24%total34 km
- Rock Creekord 4len here7.06 km3%total204 km
- East Fork Duchesne Riverord 2len here6.87 km60%total11 km
- Brown Duck Creekord 1len here6.83 km61%total11 km
- Gilbert Creekord 1len here6.59 km100%total7 km
- Milk Creekord 2len here6.45 km29%total23 km
- Ottoson Creekord 2len here5.42 km100%total5 km
- Right Hand Fork East Fork Bear Riverord 1len here4.99 km100%total5 km
- Burnt Forkord 3len here4.86 km26%total19 km
- Left Hand Fork East Fork Bear Riverord 2len here4.45 km36%total12 km
- Fish Creekord 3len here3.67 km2%total150 km
- Rock Canyonord 2len here3.56 km5%total72 km
- East Fork Blacks Forkord 1len here2.84 km100%total3 km
- East Fork Smiths Forkord 2len here2.66 km11%total25 km
- East Basin Creekord 1len here2.64 km100%total3 km
- Sinowauvf Creekord 1len here2.16 km100%total2 km
- Duchesne Riverord 5len here1.99 km1%total257 km
- Joulious Creekord 2len here1.75 km15%total11 km
- Ostler Forkord 1len here1.74 km90%total2 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
- 40.74374, -110.49417
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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.