HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080373010
Bassin de Musselshell 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 3 administrative regions : Fergus, Golden Valley, Musselshell
Sub-basin area
1 039km²
Upstream area
1 039,1km²
Discharge
0,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 563.0 km²54.0% of basin
- 464.6 km²44.6% of basin
- 14.2 km²1.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
24.61 km² overlap
Twin Coulee
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
18.35 km² overlap
Big Snowies
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
9.59 km² overlap
Bull Mountains
IUCN VEasement
5.59 km² overlap
Minerva Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.23 km² overlap
Lake Mason
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
418 distinct species · 5 359 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Musselshell River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
983mm
AET
346mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
706cm
Forest
18%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)