Wildlife Management Area · usa
Potomac
- Area
- 591 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
- State Department of Natural Resources ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 272 distinct species · 35 479 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 Potomac : 27 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 10.2%, 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).
Hydrology8 basins · 1 lakes · 24 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
119,5km
Lake surface here
0,20km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 729km²
Discharge in basins
9,6m³/s
Mean precip.
1 180mm/an
Mean T°
8,5°C
Moisture idx
0,14
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
528mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
904m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de North Fork South Branch Potomac Riversub-area837,4 km²overlap307.38 km²52%
- Bassin de Blackwater Riversub-area1 266,7 km²overlap167.05 km²28%
- Bassin de South Branch Potomac Riversub-area847,2 km²overlap108.81 km²18%
- Bassin de North Mill Creeksub-area246,3 km²overlap4.46 km²1%
- Bassin de North Fork Lunice Creeksub-area226,7 km²overlap2.42 km²0%
- Bassin de Greenbrier Riversub-area1 061,6 km²overlap0.50 km²0%
- Bassin de North Branch Potomac Riversub-area722,9 km²overlap0.14 km²0%
- Bassin de South Branch Potomac Riversub-area44,5 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (24, ord ≥ 4)
- Seneca Creekord 3len here22.77 km47%total49 km
- South Branch Potomac Riverord 5len here16.06 km10%total158 km
- Red Creekord 5len here14.84 km17%total85 km
- Big Runord 2len here13.02 km41%total32 km
- North Fork South Branch Potomac Riverord 4len here9.90 km16%total60 km
- Gandy Creekord 2len here9.50 km30%total32 km
- Reeds Creekord 1len here5.14 km33%total16 km
- South Fork Red Creekord 1len here4.29 km89%total5 km
- Vance Runord 2len here4.10 km66%total6 km
- Stonecoal Runord 1len here3.19 km66%total5 km
- Elk Runord 1len here3.15 km39%total8 km
- Big Runord 4len here2.78 km2%total147 km
12 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Teeter Camp Runord 1len here2.15 km97%total2 km
- Jordan Runord 2len here2.13 km20%total11 km
- Briggs Runord 1len here1.41 km41%total3 km
- Brushy Runord 1len here1.21 km11%total11 km
- Sawmill Branchord 1len here1.16 km100%total1 km
- Friends Runord 4len here0.82 km8%total10 km
- Swallow Rock Runord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Dice Runord 3len here0.65 km9%total7 km
- Straight Forkord 1len here0.30 km3%total10 km
- Laurel Runord 1len here0.28 km2%total14 km
- Sawmill Runord 1len here≈ tangenttotal7 km
- Shafter Runord 1len here≈ tangenttotal1 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
- 38.72525, -79.55424
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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.