Forest Reserve · usa
Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch
- Area
- 268 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Assigned
Overview
- Designation
- Forest Reserve 0
- Managing authority
- Regional Agency Land ; County Land ; Private
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 299 distinct species · 226 410 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 70 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).
Hydrology5 basins · 20 lakes · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
97,2km
Lake surface here
8,18km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 788km²
Discharge in basins
3,4m³/s
Mean precip.
923mm/an
Mean T°
9,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,05
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
307mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
209m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Des Plaines Riversub-area3 824,4 km²overlap127.10 km²47%
- Bassin de Calumet Riversub-area1 781,5 km²overlap76.37 km²28%
- Bassin de Fox Riversub-area1 755,4 km²overlap45.60 km²17%
- Bassin de Skokie Riversub-area1 308,9 km²overlap19.15 km²7%
- Bassin de Cemetery Ravinesub-area960,4 km²overlap0.13 km²0%
Lakes (20, top by area)
- Saganashkee Slougharea1,4 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Busse Lakearea1,4 km²avg depth2.8 m
- McGinnis Slougharea1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1053425area0,6 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1051922area0,5 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1051912area0,4 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1053422area0,4 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1052252area0,3 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lac 1051931area0,3 km²avg depth2.7 m
11 more lakes
- Lac 1053214area0,3 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1053386area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1053579area0,2 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1053213area0,2 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lac 1052028area0,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1051976area0,2 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1052014area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1052124area0,2 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 1053391area0,1 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1053314area0,1 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1052009area0,1 km²avg depth1.9 m
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- Des Plaines Riverord 4len here22.68 km14%total157 km
- Poplar Creekord 3len here8.98 km7%total131 km
- Salt Creekord 6len here8.28 km1%total1617 km
- North Branch Chicago Riverord 3len here7.83 km27%total29 km
- Spring Creekord 5len here6.33 km0%total2668 km
- Thorn Creekord 3len here6.09 km24%total26 km
- Skokie Riverord 2len here5.26 km15%total34 km
- Cal-Sag Channelord 2len here4.21 km22%total19 km
- Little Calumet Riverord 4len here3.96 km9%total45 km
- Cal-Sag Channelord 1len here3.69 km75%total5 km
- South Forkord 3len here2.80 km2%total158 km
- Mill Creekord 4len here2.12 km0%total581 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- West Branch Salt Creekord 2len here2.04 km38%total5 km
- Calumet Riverord 4len here1.86 km5%total39 km
- Poplar Creek, East Branchord 1len here1.75 km37%total5 km
- West Fork North Branch Chicago Riverord 2len here1.58 km9%total18 km
- Plum Creekord 3len here1.58 km2%total77 km
- Farmer's Creekord 3len here1.09 km21%total5 km
- Deer Creekord 4len here0.89 km0%total234 km
- Grand Calumet Riverord 1len here0.75 km4%total18 km
- Midlothian Creekord 1len here0.68 km9%total7 km
- North Creekord 3len here0.66 km3%total23 km
- Bensenville Ditchord 1len here0.47 km3%total18 km
- McDonald Creekord 2len here0.43 km2%total28 km
- Long Runord 3len here0.27 km0%total62 km
- Silver Creekord 5len here0.24 km0%total954 km
- Addison Creekord 1len here0.23 km11%total2 km
- Butterfield Creekord 3len here0.18 km0%total52 km
- Weller Creekord 1len here0.16 km2%total7 km
- Wheeling Drainage Ditchord 2len here0.11 km7%total2 km
- Willow Creekord 6len here0.02 km0%total1007 km
- Flagg Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal7 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
- 41.71477, -87.88103
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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.