Wilderness Study Area · usa
North Escalante Canyons/The Gulch
- Area
- 516 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1980
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1980
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 326 distinct species · 31 855 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Escalante Canyons/The Gulch : 20 espèces reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, 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).
Hydrology4 basins · 0 lakes · 17 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
140,8km
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 556km²
Discharge in basins
0,5m³/s
Mean precip.
249mm/an
Mean T°
9,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,78
Max snow
26%
Mean runoff
20mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 968m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (17, ord ≥ 4)
- Escalante Riverord 4len here30.35 km19%total162 km
- Horse Canyonord 4len here24.36 km19%total127 km
- The Gulchord 4len here17.21 km97%total18 km
- Harris Washord 3len here11.97 km99%total12 km
- Deer Creekord 3len here10.43 km7%total157 km
- Boulder Creekord 3len here10.26 km7%total138 km
- Wolverine Creekord 1len here7.18 km91%total8 km
- Halfway Holloword 2len here7.11 km25%total28 km
- Long Canyonord 3len here6.89 km17%total40 km
- Harris Wash Trailord 3len here3.98 km100%total4 km
- Red Breaksord 3len here3.44 km83%total4 km
- Dry Fork Silver Falls Creekord 2len here2.55 km28%total9 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
- 37.77045, -111.33631
- Open in maps
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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.