HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080074690
Bassin de Badger Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 4 administrative regions : Harney, Humboldt, Lake, Washoe
Sub-basin area
2 197,5km²
Upstream area
2 197,5km²
Discharge
0,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 810m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake976.9 km²44.4% of basin
- 920.4 km²41.8% of basin
- 198.9 km²9.0% of basin
- Humboldt104.6 km²4.8% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Sheldon
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
790.38 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
227.16 km² overlap
Spaulding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
221.05 km² overlap
Refuge
151.35 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
134.06 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
98.96 km² overlap
Sheldon Contiguous
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
92.35 km² overlap
Massacre Rim
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
80.14 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
73.39 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Guano Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
33.55 km² overlap
Hawk Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
18.20 km² overlap
Sage Hen Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
17.74 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
16.72 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
9.21 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
8.31 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
4.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
963 distinct species · 16 261 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Bassin de Badger Creek : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 126 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.2%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
6,3°C
Annual rain
318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 038mm
AET
277mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
458cm
Forest
7%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)