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Units / California / Sheep zone 9

Cady Mountains · Sheep zone 9 · 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 9Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

78%

242,427 ac of 311,381 ac

Landlocked public

3,012 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

36%

of public · 87,258 ac

Walk-in access

1,592 ac

private land opened to hunting

Bighorn sheep · 2025

100% success

2 taken by 2 hunters

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

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California bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →

2 tags drawn on this sheep zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation1,020–4,570 ft
Median elevation1,930 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

1,020 ft4,570 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 26%
S 25%
W 22%

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

Newberry, Rodman and Ord Mountains · Sheep zone 10 · 79% publicGranite and North Bristol Mountains · Sheep zone 11 · 99% publicKelso Peak/Old Dad Mountains · Sheep zone 2 · 98% publicSouth Bristol Mountains · Sheep zone 8 · 95% 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.