HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080368400
Bassin de Kootenai 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 2 administrative regions : Idaho, Ravalli
Sub-basin area
243km²
Upstream area
5 511,7km²
Discharge
32,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 636m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bitterroot River2253 km²
- Bassin de Union Ditch517 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 243.6 km²100.0% of basin
- IdahoIdaho · United States0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Selway-Bitterroot
IUCN IbWilderness
95.80 km² overlap
Lee Metcalf
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
4.07 km² overlap
Severson's Flying E Ranch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.47 km² overlap
Bitterroot River
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 560 distinct species · 35 124 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 Bassin de Kootenai Creek : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
3,7°C
Annual rain
457mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
884mm
AET
389mm
Mean slope
16,8°
Water table
899cm
Forest
60%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)