Wilderness Area · usa
Steens Mountain
- Area
- 705 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 523 distinct species · 20 254 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Steens Mountain : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 155 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 17.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 24 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
119,1km
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
5 815km²
Discharge in basins
0,6m³/s
Mean precip.
292mm/an
Mean T°
6,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,72
Max snow
16%
Mean runoff
85mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 616m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Donner und Blitzen Riverord 4len here31.55 km33%total96 km
- Little Blitzen Riverord 1len here13.80 km72%total19 km
- Fish Creekord 2len here11.55 km64%total18 km
- Ankle Creekord 2len here10.86 km100%total11 km
- Dry Creekord 3len here10.02 km100%total10 km
- Big Indian Creekord 1len here8.53 km100%total9 km
- Little Indian Creekord 2len here7.98 km99%total8 km
- Willow Creekord 1len here7.90 km49%total16 km
- Indian Spring Creekord 1len here5.78 km100%total6 km
- Kiger Creekord 3len here2.63 km10%total27 km
- Bone Creekord 1len here2.57 km29%total9 km
- Carlson Creekord 1len here2.24 km28%total8 km
2 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
- 42.68473, -118.66022
- 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.