Wilderness · usa
Wild Sky
- Area
- 433 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2008
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2008
- Managing authority
- Forest Service ; Non-Governmental Organization
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
305 distinct species · 616 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Wild Sky : 39 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology2 basins · 1 lakes · 35 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
105,1km
Lake surface here
0,55km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 179km²
Discharge in basins
27,5m³/s
Mean precip.
1 978mm/an
Mean T°
6,0°C
Moisture idx
0,62
Max snow
42%
Mean runoff
1 645mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
848m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (35, ord ≥ 4)
- North Fork Skykomish Riverord 4len here15.48 km31%total50 km
- Salmon Creekord 3len here7.41 km59%total13 km
- Trout Creekord 2len here6.93 km74%total9 km
- Fourth of July Creekord 2len here6.47 km73%total9 km
- Wallace Riverord 4len here5.93 km26%total23 km
- Rapid Riverord 2len here4.53 km28%total16 km
- Bear Creekord 2len here4.36 km22%total20 km
- May Creekord 1len here4.28 km30%total14 km
- Excelsior Creekord 1len here3.91 km100%total4 km
- Troublesome Creekord 2len here3.27 km31%total10 km
- North Fork South Fork Sultan Riverord 2len here3.21 km28%total12 km
- Molybdenum Gulchord 1len here3.07 km100%total3 km
23 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Silver Creekord 3len here3.00 km56%total5 km
- Barclay Creekord 1len here2.92 km31%total9 km
- South Fork Trout Creekord 1len here2.82 km100%total3 km
- Evergreen Creekord 2len here2.41 km35%total7 km
- Meadow Creekord 1len here2.35 km56%total4 km
- Bitter Creekord 1len here2.31 km77%total3 km
- Kelley Creekord 1len here2.18 km100%total2 km
- Quartz Creekord 2len here2.04 km13%total16 km
- Beckler Riverord 3len here1.70 km9%total19 km
- North Fork Rapid Riverord 2len here1.63 km26%total6 km
- Johnson Creekord 2len here1.62 km20%total8 km
- Snowslide Gulchord 1len here1.58 km100%total2 km
- Elk Creekord 1len here1.48 km19%total8 km
- Sultan Riverord 3len here1.45 km3%total46 km
- Lockwood Creekord 2len here1.23 km37%total3 km
- "Jakes" Creekord 2len here1.04 km34%total3 km
- Martin Creekord 3len here1.00 km11%total9 km
- Straight up Gulchord 1len here0.78 km100%total1 km
- Harlan Creekord 3len here0.76 km13%total6 km
- Goblin Creekord 1len here0.74 km20%total4 km
- Eagle Creekord 2len here0.43 km5%total8 km
- Boulder Creekord 2len here0.40 km3%total14 km
- Middle Fork South Fork Sultan Riverord 2len here0.35 km9%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
- 47.81652, -121.41097
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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.