Wilderness · usa
West Elk
- Area
- 714 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1964
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1964
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
524 distinct species · 2 328 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Elk : 31 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 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 · 0 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
111,8km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
9 486km²
Discharge in basins
19,0m³/s
Mean precip.
491mm/an
Mean T°
2,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,44
Max snow
47%
Mean runoff
165mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 751m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de North Fork Gunnison Riversub-area2 507,4 km²overlap256.12 km²36%
- Bassin de Soap Creeksub-area914,2 km²overlap232.52 km²33%
- Bassin de Taylor Riversub-area2 626,2 km²overlap84.38 km²12%
- Bassin de Gunnison Riversub-area952,5 km²overlap76.51 km²11%
- Bassin de Grand View Ditchsub-area497,5 km²overlap64.46 km²9%
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- West Elk Creekord 2len here17.77 km44%total41 km
- Coal Creekord 3len here17.42 km11%total164 km
- Beaver Creekord 5len here15.65 km6%total250 km
- Soap Creekord 2len here10.56 km29%total37 km
- Cliff Creekord 1len here8.49 km94%total9 km
- North Smith Forkord 2len here6.19 km68%total9 km
- Ranger Creekord 2len here4.17 km87%total5 km
- Cow Creekord 3len here4.07 km3%total152 km
- Steuben Creekord 2len here4.00 km20%total20 km
- Robinson Creekord 2len here3.94 km53%total7 km
- West Soap Creekord 1len here3.42 km71%total5 km
- East Soap Creekord 1len here3.31 km100%total3 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Peter Creekord 1len here2.98 km100%total3 km
- Castle Creekord 6len here2.88 km2%total181 km
- Ohio Creekord 3len here2.84 km6%total48 km
- South Smith Forkord 1len here1.21 km36%total3 km
- Cascade Creekord 3len here1.07 km5%total23 km
- Little Gunnison Creekord 1len here0.99 km47%total2 km
- Bottle Creekord 1len here0.54 km2%total27 km
- Little Robinson Creekord 1len here0.25 km47%total1 km
- Pass Creekord 3len here0.05 km0%total25 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
- 38.69097, -107.23982
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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.