Wilderness Study Area · usa
Palisades
- Area
- 544 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
885 distinct species · 10 424 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Palisades : 21 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.2%, 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).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
83,4km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
15 188km²
Discharge in basins
67,5m³/s
Mean precip.
498mm/an
Mean T°
2,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,42
Max snow
45%
Mean runoff
222mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 154m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Fish Creekord 4len here12.67 km8%total153 km
- Snake Riverord 7len here11.16 km0%total2867 km
- Fall Creekord 4len here9.31 km6%total162 km
- South Fork Indian Creekord 2len here8.49 km35%total24 km
- North Fork Fall Creekord 1len here8.27 km44%total19 km
- Wolf Creekord 4len here7.00 km4%total176 km
- Big Elk Creekord 3len here6.64 km15%total43 km
- North Fork Indian Creekord 3len here6.27 km26%total25 km
- Siddoway Forkord 2len here4.36 km100%total4 km
- North Fork Elk Creekord 1len here3.36 km41%total8 km
- South Fork Elk Creekord 1len here3.04 km100%total3 km
- Rock Creekord 6len here2.20 km0%total1142 km
1 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 43.36002, -110.95963
- 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.