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Units / California / Hunt zone G3

Goodale Buck Hunt · Hunt zone G3 · 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 G3Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

99%

183,574 ac of 185,159 ac

Landlocked public

82 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

32%

of public · 58,109 ac

Deer · 2024

87% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

20 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 83% → 87%

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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

Elevation3,660–14,200 ft
Median elevation5,790 ft
Median slope13°

Where the ground sits

3,660 ft14,200 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 52%
S 16%
W 5%

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

Zone X9b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A17 · 99% publicZone X9c Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A18 · 91% publicZone X10 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A19 · 96% publicX10 Late Season Buck Hunt · Hunt zone G38 · 96% 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.