A - Park · can
PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY PARK
- Area
- 2 020 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1974
Overview
- Designation
- A - Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1974
- Managing authority
- Government of British Columbia
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
573 distinct species · 2 203 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY PARK : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 10 lakes · 23 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
293,7km
Lake surface here
2,06km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
7 251km²
Discharge in basins
97,6m³/s
Mean precip.
756mm/an
Mean T°
0,2°C
Moisture idx
0,17
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
533mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 812m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Fry Creeksub-area639,7 km²overlap623.96 km²31%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area1 348,1 km²overlap342.40 km²17%
- Bassin de Findlay Creeksub-area888 km²overlap336.25 km²17%
- Bassin de Hamill Creeksub-area873,8 km²overlap289.75 km²14%
- Bassin de Toby Creeksub-area673,7 km²overlap140.35 km²7%
- Bassin de Skookumchuck Creeksub-area879 km²overlap137.38 km²7%
- Bassin de St. Mary Riversub-area2 696,8 km²overlap134.91 km²7%
- Bassin de Campbell Creeksub-area289,4 km²overlap13.20 km²1%
- Bassin de Glacier Creeksub-area487,2 km²overlap1.47 km²0%
Lakes (10, top by area)
- Kootenayarea421,5 km²avg depth179.0 m
- Lac 960047area0,4 km²avg depth9.3 m
- Lac 957645area0,2 km²avg depth9.1 m
- Lac 959613area0,2 km²avg depth9.5 m
- Lac 960484area0,2 km²avg depth8.0 m
- Lac 959874area0,1 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 962172area0,1 km²avg depth9.2 m
- Lac 962514area0,1 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 959873area0,1 km²avg depth7.0 m
1 more lakes
Rivers / streams (23, ord ≥ 4)
- Hamill Creekord 3len here45.07 km97%total46 km
- Fry Creekord 4len here42.80 km83%total52 km
- Carney Creekord 3len here41.44 km100%total41 km
- Dutch Creekord 3len here19.37 km25%total78 km
- Pinnacle Creekord 2len here18.57 km37%total50 km
- Findlay Creekord 3len here16.99 km19%total89 km
- Toby Creekord 3len here16.65 km35%total48 km
- Clint Creekord 2len here11.92 km100%total12 km
- Gillis Creekord 2len here11.73 km100%total12 km
- Greasy Rocks Creekord 2len here9.58 km100%total10 km
- South Toby Creekord 1len here9.18 km100%total9 km
- Ben Abel Creekord 1len here8.56 km100%total9 km
11 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Crazy Creekord 2len here7.55 km100%total8 km
- Skookumchuck Creekord 3len here7.15 km10%total69 km
- Lillian Creekord 1len here6.45 km100%total6 km
- Pharaoh Creekord 2len here5.57 km100%total6 km
- St. Mary Riverord 4len here5.39 km4%total148 km
- Lunch Creekord 3len here3.49 km100%total3 km
- Stanley Creekord 2len here2.86 km10%total30 km
- Noel Creekord 1len here2.31 km62%total4 km
- Nine Mile Creekord 1len here0.70 km101%total1 km
- Kootenay Joe Creekord 1len here0.35 km14%total2 km
- Buhl Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal17 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
- 50.09060, -116.55591
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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.