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Units / California / Hunt zone G21

Ventana Wilderness Buck Hunt · Hunt zone G21 · California

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

Hunt zone G21Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

99%

236,015 ac of 237,726 ac

Landlocked public

42 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

66%

of public · 156,260 ac

Deer · 2024

36% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

9 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 24% → 36%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

25 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation200–5,840 ft
Median elevation2,810 ft
Median slope27°

Where the ground sits

200 ft5,840 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 26%
S 25%
W 23%

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 deer hunt zones

Monterey Archery Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone A24 · 22% publicFort Hunter Liggett Antlerless Deer Hunt · Hunt zone G8 · 0% publicFort Hunter Liggett Late Season Archery Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone A33 · 0% publicFort Hunter Liggett Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J10 · 0% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deer 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.