Wilderness Study Area · usa
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn
- Area
- 630 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1997
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1997
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 118 distinct species · 15 034 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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 · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
68,4km
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
8 112km²
Discharge in basins
15,3m³/s
Mean precip.
599mm/an
Mean T°
2,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,24
Max snow
40%
Mean runoff
224mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 079m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Big Creekord 8len here10.84 km1%total1608 km
- Porcupine Creekord 2len here7.15 km10%total69 km
- Eightmile Creekord 7len here5.38 km5%total98 km
- Buffalo Horn Creekord 1len here5.29 km64%total8 km
- Elkhorn Creekord 4len here5.07 km2%total241 km
- Bark Cabin Creekord 2len here5.05 km100%total5 km
- Cliff Creekord 1len here4.71 km53%total9 km
- South Fork Eightmile Creekord 1len here4.55 km100%total5 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 5len here3.91 km0%total1014 km
- Rock Creekord 8len here3.38 km0%total2074 km
- Swan Creekord 4len here3.10 km2%total190 km
- Hyalite Creekord 2len here2.08 km13%total16 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- South Cottonwood Creekord 2len here1.92 km4%total43 km
- Fridley Creekord 1len here1.75 km12%total14 km
- Lewis Creekord 3len here1.61 km2%total69 km
- East Fork Hyalite Creekord 1len here1.22 km24%total5 km
- Mist Creekord 1len here0.85 km13%total7 km
- Tepee Creekord 2len here0.33 km2%total21 km
- Tom Miner Creekord 2len here0.25 km2%total16 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
- 45.29109, -111.02026
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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.