HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080328710

Bassin de Thief River

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 5 administrative regions : Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington, Roseau

20% lakePfafstetter: 71226660

Sub-basin area

2 688km²

Upstream area

2 688km²

Discharge

7,64m³/s

Mean elev.

357m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Red Lake River372 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Marshall
Minnesota · United States
1552.5 km²
57.6% of basin
Beltrami
Minnesota · United States
902.4 km²
33.5% of basin
Pennington
Minnesota · United States
228.7 km²
8.5% of basin
Roseau
Minnesota · United States
9.5 km²
0.4% of basin
Lake of the Woods
Minnesota · United States
2.9 km²
0.1% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Agassiz
IUCN IV
National Wildlife Refuge
252.01 km² overlap
Thief Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
155.91 km² overlap
Red Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
97.16 km² overlap
Moose River
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
86.09 km² overlap
Wapiti
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
78.31 km² overlap
Elm Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
63.71 km² overlap
Wolf Trail
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
31.54 km² overlap
Eckvoll
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
26.29 km² overlap
Agassiz National Wildlif
IUCN Ib
National Wildlife Refuge
20.61 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Carmelee
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
15.81 km² overlap
Espelie
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
14.75 km² overlap
Hamre
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
14.69 km² overlap
Willow-Run
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
14.42 km² overlap
Grygla
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
13.94 km² overlap
Sem
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
11.48 km² overlap
Fireweed
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
9.17 km² overlap
Lee
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
9.08 km² overlap
Moylan
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
6.94 km² overlap
Gun-dog
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
5.49 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Marshall, MN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
5.46 km² overlap
Saw-whet
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
5.20 km² overlap
Palmville
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
5.04 km² overlap
Benville
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
4.83 km² overlap
Valley
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
2.65 km² overlap
Emergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP-FPE), Marshall, MN
IUCN V
Watershed Protection
2.08 km² overlap
Beltrami
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
2.01 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mn
IUCN IV
National Wildlife Refuge
1.56 km² overlap
Agder
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.11 km² overlap
Mudlac
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.97 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN V
Wetland Preserve
0.96 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

986 distinct species · 61 145 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Thief River : 21 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.133

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

3,2°C

Annual rain

554mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,34

Runoff

54mm/an

PET

839mm

AET

475mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

4cm

Forest

32%

Crops

42%

Urban

Protected

35%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)