National Wildlife Refuge · usa
Medicine Lake
- Area
- 130 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1935
Overview
- Designation
- National Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1935
- Managing authority
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; State Department of Natural Resources
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
505 distinct species · 42 242 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Medicine Lake : 13 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 10 lakes · 4 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
16,5km
Lake surface here
40,83km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
9 470km²
Discharge in basins
0,7m³/s
Mean precip.
346mm/an
Mean T°
4,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,63
Max snow
26%
Mean runoff
35mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
625m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Big Muddy Creeksub-area321,1 km²overlap95.84 km²74%
- Basin #17980sub-area193 km²overlap18.33 km²14%
- Bassin de Big Muddy Creeksub-area685,5 km²overlap13.29 km²10%
- Basin #18300sub-area68,6 km²overlap1.38 km²1%
- Basin #18310sub-area347,9 km²overlap0.64 km²0%
- Bassin de Big Muddy Creeksub-area2 225,3 km²overlap0.38 km²0%
- Basin #18450sub-area323,7 km²overlap0.21 km²0%
Lakes (10, top by area)
- Medicine Lakearea33,3 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Homestead Lakearea3,6 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Katy Lakearea1,2 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 992304area0,8 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 992152area0,5 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 991404area0,4 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 991515area0,4 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 992162area0,3 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 992109area0,2 km²avg depth1.8 m
1 more lakes
Rivers / streams (4, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 48.49076, -104.34043
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.