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Units / California / Sheep zone 6

Sheep Hole Mountains · Sheep zone 6 · 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 6Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

97%

237,017 ac of 244,064 ac

Landlocked public

2,677 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

65%

of public · 154,905 ac

Bighorn sheep · 2025

100% success

1 taken by 1 hunters

Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2024–2025 · 0% → 100%

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California bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →

1 tags drawn on this sheep zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation560–4,550 ft
Median elevation1,550 ft
Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

560 ft4,550 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 27%
S 24%
W 25%

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

South Bristol Mountains · Sheep zone 8 · 95% publicMarble/Clipper Mountains · Sheep zone 1 · 95% publicOrocopia Mountains · Sheep zone 4 · 78% publicGranite and North Bristol Mountains · Sheep zone 11 · 99% public

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