Wildlife Management Area · usa
North Cherokee National Forest &
- Area
- 1 376 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Management Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- Forest Service ; State Fish and Wildlife
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 397 distinct species · 71 148 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 North Cherokee National Forest & : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 2 lakes · 58 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
141,9km
Lake surface here
0,53km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
4 873km²
Discharge in basins
73,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 228mm/an
Mean T°
11,6°C
Moisture idx
0,05
Max snow
5%
Mean runoff
641mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
741m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Watauga Riversub-area2 260,7 km²overlap432.59 km²31%
- Bassin de Nolichucky Riversub-area1 980,4 km²overlap366.60 km²27%
- Bassin de French Broad Riversub-area835 km²overlap236.52 km²17%
- Bassin de South Fork Holston Riversub-area674,7 km²overlap149.03 km²11%
- Bassin de South Fork Holston Riversub-area834,1 km²overlap146.25 km²11%
- Bassin de Pigeon Riversub-area1 754,1 km²overlap42.08 km²3%
- Bassin de Big Laurel Creeksub-area337,3 km²overlap1.78 km²0%
- Bassin de North Toe Riversub-area1 126,2 km²overlap1.09 km²0%
- Bassin de Cane Riversub-area406,9 km²overlap0.43 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (58, ord ≥ 4)
- Paint Creekord 4len here15.27 km4%total361 km
- Big Branchord 3len here13.28 km14%total95 km
- French Broad Riverord 6len here12.90 km4%total348 km
- Beaver Dam Creekord 2len here8.55 km34%total25 km
- Clark Creekord 1len here7.17 km30%total24 km
- North Indian Creekord 2len here6.84 km16%total43 km
- Nolichucky Riverord 5len here6.83 km4%total168 km
- Wolf Creekord 5len here6.07 km0%total1706 km
- Elk Riverord 5len here5.60 km0%total1242 km
- Dry Creekord 8len here5.07 km0%total1337 km
- Pigeon Riverord 5len here4.74 km6%total76 km
- Trail Forkord 3len here3.66 km27%total14 km
46 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Little Stony Creekord 2len here3.66 km9%total40 km
- Doe Riverord 3len here3.47 km10%total36 km
- Watauga Riverord 4len here3.41 km3%total114 km
- Gentry Creekord 2len here3.22 km14%total23 km
- Granny Lewis Creekord 1len here2.60 km83%total3 km
- Gulf Fork Big Creekord 2len here2.47 km8%total29 km
- Laurel Creekord 4len here2.30 km1%total315 km
- Roaring Creekord 4len here2.21 km3%total86 km
- Horse Creekord 7len here1.91 km0%total1158 km
- Owens Branchord 1len here1.79 km69%total3 km
- Rock Creekord 8len here1.73 km0%total2074 km
- Cassi Creekord 1len here1.73 km24%total7 km
- Jennings Creekord 1len here1.61 km11%total15 km
- South Fork Holston Riverord 5len here1.22 km0%total314 km
- Scioto Creekord 1len here1.10 km26%total4 km
- Tom Creekord 1len here1.09 km7%total16 km
- Laurel Forkord 3len here0.98 km0%total226 km
- Painter Creekord 1len here0.95 km3%total33 km
- Long Creekord 8len here0.93 km0%total439 km
- Devils Creekord 1len here0.80 km2%total41 km
- Tiger Creekord 3len here0.74 km1%total72 km
- Katy Branchord 4len here0.59 km61%total1 km
- Stony Creekord 4len here0.54 km0%total249 km
- Furnace Branchord 7len here0.53 km5%total10 km
- Laurel Branchord 5len here0.51 km1%total43 km
- Doe Creekord 2len here0.42 km1%total57 km
- Higgins Creekord 2len here0.39 km5%total9 km
- Heaton Branchord 1len here0.36 km9%total4 km
- Spivey Creekord 2len here0.35 km4%total9 km
- Snowbird Creekord 4len here0.31 km2%total14 km
- Cripple Creekord 3len here0.28 km0%total68 km
- Ham Smith Branchord 4len here0.24 km6%total4 km
- Big Creekord 8len here0.21 km0%total1608 km
- Middle Fork Gulf Fork Big Creekord 1len here0.20 km11%total2 km
- Trivett Branchord 1len here0.20 km6%total3 km
- Buck Creekord 5len here0.17 km0%total589 km
- Roan Creekord 3len here0.11 km0%total44 km
- Miller Branchord 1len here0.11 km3%total3 km
- Draught Creekord 3len here0.11 km2%total6 km
- Sinking Creekord 5len here0.09 km0%total319 km
- Kite Branchord 1len here0.08 km6%total1 km
- Mill Creekord 7len here0.07 km0%total1839 km
- Big Dry Runord 2len here0.05 km1%total4 km
- Groundhog Creekord 1len here0.02 km1%total3 km
- Cobb Creekord 2len here0.02 km0%total125 km
- South Indian Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal12 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
- 36.46730, -82.09144
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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.