Wilderness · usa
West Canada Lake
- Area
- 706 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
0 - Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
614 distinct species · 12 208 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 West Canada Lake : 24 espèces reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 25 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
165,1km
Lake surface here
7,72km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 424km²
Discharge in basins
20,7m³/s
Mean precip.
1 257mm/an
Mean T°
4,7°C
Moisture idx
0,33
Max snow
36%
Mean runoff
896mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
584m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de West Canada Creeksub-area1 423,6 km²overlap290.85 km²41%
- Bassin de South Branch Moose Riversub-area546,7 km²overlap148.44 km²21%
- Bassin de Cedar Riversub-area425 km²overlap115.10 km²16%
- Bassin de West Branch Sacandaga Riversub-area842,2 km²overlap64.58 km²9%
- Bassin de Indian Riversub-area442,1 km²overlap62.89 km²9%
- Bassin de Black Riversub-area1 133,6 km²overlap24.27 km²3%
Lakes (25, top by area)
- Cedar River Flowarea2,2 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Beaver Pondarea1,6 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lac 1048141area0,9 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 1048271area0,6 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 1048238area0,5 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 1047923area0,5 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1048151area0,5 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 1048397area0,4 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1048150area0,4 km²avg depth5.2 m
16 more lakes
- Lac 1048134area0,4 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 1048157area0,3 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1048123area0,3 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lac 1048075area0,3 km²avg depth5.5 m
- Lac 1048438area0,3 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 1048174area0,3 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 1048192area0,2 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 1048130area0,2 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 1048554area0,1 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Lac 1048430area0,1 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1048250area0,1 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 1048334area0,1 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 1048224area0,1 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1048059area0,1 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 1048062area0,1 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 1048077area0,1 km²avg depth5.1 m
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- West Canada Creekord 4len here27.34 km16%total168 km
- Cedar Riverord 4len here21.75 km28%total78 km
- Indian Riverord 4len here18.67 km3%total555 km
- Indian Riverord 4len here15.69 km42%total37 km
- South Branch West Canada Creekord 3len here14.65 km41%total36 km
- Cobblestone Creekord 3len here9.63 km79%total12 km
- Whitney Creekord 2len here9.02 km100%total9 km
- Jessup Riverord 2len here7.71 km36%total21 km
- Onion Brookord 1len here5.93 km100%total6 km
- Otter Brookord 2len here5.00 km34%total15 km
- Cold Streamord 3len here4.88 km52%total9 km
- Wolf Creekord 3len here4.70 km3%total137 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- North Branch Black Riverord 4len here3.72 km10%total38 km
- Mud Creekord 2len here3.64 km20%total18 km
- Grassy Brookord 1len here2.80 km100%total3 km
- Miami Riverord 2len here2.79 km17%total16 km
- Falls Brookord 2len here1.93 km37%total5 km
- South Branch Moose Riverord 4len here1.80 km3%total54 km
- Callahan Brookord 1len here1.77 km100%total2 km
- Page Brookord 1len here1.47 km89%total2 km
- Payne Brookord 2len here0.21 km5%total4 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
- 43.58481, -74.68633
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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.