Wilderness · usa
Mount Zirkel
- Area
- 650 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1964
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1964
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
771 distinct species · 4 185 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Zirkel : 31 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.5%, 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).
Hydrology6 basins · 3 lakes · 20 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
89,6km
Lake surface here
0,80km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
5 801km²
Discharge in basins
1,4m³/s
Mean precip.
542mm/an
Mean T°
2,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,37
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
69mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 657m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area1 209,2 km²overlap277.63 km²43%
- Bassin de Grizzly Creeksub-area1 854,5 km²overlap207.35 km²32%
- Bassin de Encampment Riversub-area672,8 km²overlap111.44 km²17%
- Bassin de North Platte Riversub-area2 209 km²overlap42.43 km²7%
- Bassin de Yampa Riversub-area1 639,3 km²overlap9.48 km²1%
- Bassin de Little Snake Riversub-area2 820,9 km²overlap1.20 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (20, ord ≥ 4)
- Encampment Riverord 3len here13.11 km15%total87 km
- Mad Creekord 4len here8.43 km89%total9 km
- West Fork Encampment Riverord 1len here7.95 km86%total9 km
- Corral Creekord 5len here7.10 km11%total66 km
- South Fork Elk Riverord 2len here6.97 km58%total12 km
- Whalen Creekord 3len here6.91 km25%total27 km
- South Fork Mad Creekord 2len here6.09 km53%total12 km
- Middle Fork Mad Creekord 1len here5.73 km95%total6 km
- Roaring Forkord 3len here4.81 km7%total69 km
- North Fork Elk Creekord 1len here4.81 km37%total13 km
- Goose Creekord 5len here4.79 km1%total664 km
- Gold Creekord 1len here4.00 km75%total5 km
8 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- South Fork Big Creekord 2len here2.19 km8%total26 km
- Lone Pine Creekord 1len here1.90 km16%total12 km
- Mica Creekord 1len here1.58 km51%total3 km
- Forrester Creekord 1len here1.53 km37%total4 km
- East Branch South Fork Mad Creekord 1len here0.88 km100%total1 km
- South Fork Hog Park Creekord 1len here0.47 km6%total8 km
- Bear Creekord 6len here0.39 km0%total2230 km
- North Three Island Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal2 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
- 40.76536, -106.64703
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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.