Wilderness · usa
Holy Cross
- Area
- 498 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1980
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1980
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
661 distinct species · 3 964 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Holy Cross : 23 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.1%, 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).
Hydrology3 basins · 0 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
52,1km
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
3 054km²
Discharge in basins
2,5m³/s
Mean precip.
502mm/an
Mean T°
1,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,36
Max snow
50%
Mean runoff
158mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 935m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Cross Creekord 2len here16.63 km86%total19 km
- East Lake Creekord 1len here12.18 km74%total17 km
- Johnson and Howard Ditchord 1len here3.21 km30%total11 km
- Fall Creekord 2len here3.17 km9%total34 km
- West Lake Creekord 1len here3.03 km34%total9 km
- East Fork Homestake Creekord 1len here2.81 km69%total4 km
- Lime Creekord 5len here2.44 km4%total68 km
- Lake Forkord 3len here1.74 km2%total97 km
- East Brush Creekord 1len here1.72 km13%total14 km
- West Cross Creekord 1len here1.60 km100%total2 km
- Homestake Creekord 2len here1.43 km7%total21 km
- Last Chance Creekord 3len here1.27 km1%total89 km
1 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 39.43305, -106.50687
- 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.