Wilderness Study Area · usa
Owyhee River Canyon
- Area
- 759 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
434 distinct species · 1 272 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Owyhee River Canyon : 27 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, 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).
Hydrology11 basins · 1 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
197,9km
Lake surface here
0,17km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
16 430km²
Discharge in basins
37,1m³/s
Mean precip.
307mm/an
Mean T°
6,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,73
Max snow
23%
Mean runoff
53mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 585m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de West Little Owyhee Riversub-area806,3 km²overlap356.69 km²47%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area264,2 km²overlap119.90 km²16%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area251,2 km²overlap103.83 km²14%
- Bassin de Antelope Creeksub-area874 km²overlap71.26 km²9%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area224,8 km²overlap67.66 km²9%
- Bassin de Warm Springs Canyonsub-area65,8 km²overlap27.65 km²4%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area15,4 km²overlap4.91 km²1%
- Basin #71400sub-area466 km²overlap3.73 km²0%
- Bassin de Jordan Creeksub-area143,5 km²overlap2.19 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Owyhee Riverord 7len here101.04 km13%total785 km
- West Little Owyhee Riverord 3len here69.32 km79%total87 km
- Antelope Creekord 4len here8.47 km9%total91 km
- Warm Springs Canyonord 6len here6.41 km51%total13 km
- Porcupine Creekord 3len here3.95 km7%total54 km
- Skull Creekord 5len here3.35 km8%total42 km
- LoveLand Creekord 2len here3.00 km82%total4 km
- Middle Fork Owyhee Riverord 4len here1.29 km3%total38 km
- Long Creekord 4len here1.03 km1%total103 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
- 42.45893, -117.28606
- 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.