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Units / California / Sheep zone 2

Kelso Peak/Old Dad Mountains · Sheep zone 2 · California

Bighorn sheep hunt area — its own geography, not the zone with the same number. Public land, access, and bighorn sheep harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Sheep zone 2Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

98%

501,054 ac of 511,690 ac

Landlocked public

5,885 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

37%

of public · 184,963 ac

Walk-in access

103,477 ac

private land opened to hunting

Bighorn sheep · 2025

100% success

3 taken by 3 hunters

Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2024–2025 · 100% → 100%

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California bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →

3 tags drawn on this sheep zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation920–5,730 ft
Median elevation2,870 ft
Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

920 ft5,730 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%
E 20%
S 28%
W 32%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Nearby bighorn sheep sheep zones

Granite and North Bristol Mountains · Sheep zone 11 · 99% publicProvidence, Woods, and Hackberry Mountains · Sheep zone 12 · 96% publicClark/Kingston Mountain Ranges · Sheep zone 3 · 96% publicCady Mountains · Sheep zone 9 · 77% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife bighorn sheep hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.