Wilderness Area · can
White Goat Wilderness Area
- Area
- 446 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ia
- Year
- 1965
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ia · Réserve naturelle intégrale
Protection stricte, accès limité aux fins scientifiques
- Established
- 1965
- Managing authority
- Lands Operations Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
560 distinct species · 1 746 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 White Goat Wilderness Area : 29 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 120 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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 · 4 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
88,2km
Lake surface here
1,00km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 064km²
Discharge in basins
5,8m³/s
Mean precip.
648mm/an
Mean T°
-2,8°C
Moisture idx
0,18
Max snow
64%
Mean runoff
429mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 218m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- McDonald Creekord 2len here40.79 km100%total41 km
- Cline Riverord 3len here21.97 km43%total51 km
- Cataract Creekord 3len here15.33 km24%total64 km
- Huntington Creekord 1len here5.61 km100%total6 km
- Brazeau Riverord 5len here3.00 km1%total391 km
- Entry Creekord 3len here1.27 km10%total12 km
- Waterfalls Creekord 2len here0.19 km1%total17 km
- Sentinel Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal4 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
- 52.23239, -116.86064
- 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.