Wilderness Area · USA
Mount Rainier
- Area
- 919 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1988
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1988
- Managing authority
- National Park Service ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 531 distinct species · 198 878 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Mount Rainier : 29 espèces reliées par 116 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 1 lakes · 57 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
286,8km
Lake surface here
0,38km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 638km²
Discharge in basins
42,5m³/s
Mean precip.
1 982mm/an
Mean T°
6,5°C
Moisture idx
0,56
Max snow
44%
Mean runoff
1 299mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
885m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (57, ord ≥ 4)
- Ohanapecosh Riverord 3len here19.79 km57%total35 km
- West Fork White Riverord 3len here16.69 km58%total29 km
- White Riverord 5len here14.51 km12%total126 km
- Kautz Creekord 2len here12.87 km95%total13 km
- Tahoma Creekord 2len here12.59 km92%total14 km
- Nisqually Riverord 5len here12.47 km8%total149 km
- South Mowich Riverord 2len here11.18 km91%total12 km
- Fryingpan Creekord 2len here10.62 km78%total14 km
- Williwakas Creekord 2len here9.57 km100%total10 km
- Carbon Riverord 3len here9.54 km18%total54 km
- Chinook Creekord 3len here8.89 km67%total13 km
- Huckleberry Creekord 2len here7.98 km53%total15 km
45 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- North Puyallup Riverord 2len here7.81 km53%total15 km
- Muddy Fork Cowlitz Riverord 3len here7.31 km39%total19 km
- Panther Creekord 5len here7.13 km3%total213 km
- South Puyallup Riverord 1len here7.00 km69%total10 km
- North Mowich Riverord 2len here6.75 km100%total7 km
- Spray Creekord 2len here6.64 km100%total7 km
- Unicorn Creekord 2len here6.56 km100%total7 km
- Sunrise Creekord 1len here5.64 km100%total6 km
- Paradise Riverord 2len here4.68 km67%total7 km
- Stevens Creekord 2len here4.52 km16%total29 km
- Twin Falls Creekord 2len here4.30 km33%total13 km
- Inter Forkord 1len here3.75 km100%total4 km
- Meadow Creekord 1len here3.57 km60%total6 km
- Van Trump Creekord 1len here3.52 km92%total4 km
- Lost Creekord 2len here3.33 km32%total10 km
- Ipsut Creekord 1len here3.26 km100%total3 km
- Ada Creekord 2len here3.22 km66%total5 km
- Crystal Creekord 3len here3.17 km100%total3 km
- Boundary Creekord 6len here2.95 km2%total179 km
- Prospector Creekord 1len here2.79 km100%total3 km
- Deer Creekord 6len here2.72 km1%total340 km
- Chenuis Creekord 1len here2.71 km28%total10 km
- Lodi Creekord 1len here2.70 km100%total3 km
- Cataract Creekord 1len here2.60 km100%total3 km
- Dick Creekord 2len here2.60 km100%total3 km
- Klickitat Creekord 1len here2.59 km91%total3 km
- Pyramid Creekord 1len here2.41 km100%total2 km
- Boulder Creekord 3len here2.36 km1%total228 km
- Van Horn Creekord 1len here2.35 km100%total2 km
- Saint Andrews Creekord 2len here2.33 km69%total3 km
- Granite Creekord 1len here2.28 km100%total2 km
- Taos Creekord 3len here2.24 km44%total5 km
- Butter Creekord 4len here1.98 km2%total119 km
- Ranger Creekord 1len here1.69 km58%total3 km
- Needle Creekord 1len here1.62 km100%total2 km
- Shaw Creekord 1len here1.49 km92%total2 km
- Spukwush Creekord 1len here1.43 km100%total1 km
- Falls Creekord 1len here1.37 km85%total2 km
- Tolmine Creekord 1len here1.07 km23%total5 km
- Moraine Creekord 1len here1.04 km100%total1 km
- Sunbeam Creekord 1len here0.48 km61%total1 km
- Rushingwater Creekord 1len here0.11 km1%total8 km
- Pigeon Creekord 2len here0.03 km0%total9 km
- Eleanor Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal7 km
- Goat Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
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
- 46.85384, -121.71744
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.