Wild Forest · usa
Saranac Lakes
- Area
- 325 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
Overview
- Designation
- Wild Forest
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
0 - Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation ; Other or Unknown State Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 340 distinct species · 54 615 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 Saranac Lakes : 29 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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 · 40 lakes · 22 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
59,5km
Lake surface here
15,60km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 868km²
Discharge in basins
11,1m³/s
Mean precip.
978mm/an
Mean T°
5,0°C
Moisture idx
0,13
Max snow
35%
Mean runoff
646mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
450m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Saranac Riversub-area1 930,4 km²overlap219.23 km²67%
- Bassin de Raquette Riversub-area303,6 km²overlap40.09 km²12%
- Bassin de Raquette Riversub-area1 076 km²overlap35.65 km²11%
- Bassin de East Branch Ausable Riversub-area1 365,3 km²overlap20.87 km²6%
- Bassin de Saint Regis Riversub-area2 219,5 km²overlap9.36 km²3%
Lakes (40, top by area)
- Raquette Pondarea26,5 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Upper Saranac Lakearea18,4 km²avg depth4.8 m
- First Pondarea8,5 km²avg depth13.5 m
- East Lakearea7,9 km²avg depth17.6 m
- Middle Saranac Lakearea5,4 km²avg depth11.6 m
- Lake Flowerarea4 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lake Cleararea3,8 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Upper Saint Regis Lakearea2,4 km²avg depth7.4 m
- Follensby Clear Pondarea1,9 km²avg depth5.1 m
31 more lakes
- Hoel Pondarea1,9 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Rollins Pondarea1,6 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Little Clear Pondarea1,3 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Square Pondarea1,3 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lake Colbyarea1,1 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lac 1045759area1 km²avg depth6.8 m
- Lac 1045588area0,9 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 1045576area0,8 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1045802area0,7 km²avg depth6.1 m
- Lac 1045566area0,6 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1045364area0,5 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 1046060area0,5 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1045625area0,4 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1045691area0,4 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1045825area0,4 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1045465area0,4 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 1045808area0,3 km²avg depth4.0 m
- Lac 1045447area0,3 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1045613area0,3 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 1045666area0,3 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 1045521area0,3 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1045419area0,2 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 1045530area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 1045525area0,2 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 1045705area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 1045524area0,2 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1045575area0,2 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 1045652area0,2 km²avg depth5.5 m
- Lac 1045699area0,1 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 1045536area0,1 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lac 1045438area0,1 km²avg depth2.6 m
Rivers / streams (22, ord ≥ 4)
- Raquette Riverord 5len here11.66 km3%total341 km
- Saranac Riverord 4len here11.38 km6%total179 km
- West Branch Ausable Riverord 4len here10.19 km18%total58 km
- Lake Clear Outletord 3len here6.17 km56%total11 km
- Ray Brookord 2len here4.14 km18%total24 km
- Roger Brookord 1len here3.73 km57%total7 km
- Fish Creekord 8len here2.87 km1%total277 km
- Rollins Pond to Floodwoodord 2len here1.96 km77%total3 km
- Saint Regis Riverord 5len here1.96 km1%total160 km
- Grass Pond Outletord 1len here1.04 km21%total5 km
- East Branch Cold Brookord 1len here0.82 km22%total4 km
- McKenna Brookord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
10 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Chubb Riverord 2len here0.59 km3%total17 km
- Stony Creekord 3len here0.57 km0%total320 km
- Sunset Straitord 1len here0.46 km28%total2 km
- John Thomas Brookord 2len here0.46 km2%total26 km
- Cold Brookord 3len here0.40 km1%total40 km
- West Lakeord 1len here0.27 km32%total1 km
- Moose Creekord 5len here0.14 km0%total146 km
- Sumner Brookord 4len here≈ tangenttotal11 km
- East Lakeord 2len here≈ tangenttotal3 km
- Whiteface Brookord 1len here≈ tangenttotal3 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
- 44.31824, -74.24746
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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.