Lake Sonoma Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J1 · 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 J1Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

87%

4,541 ac of 5,227 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

14%

of public · 623 ac

Walk-in access

5,047 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

24% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

5 bucks · 1 does

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 4% → 24%

Plan it

See it on the map →

California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →

25 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation400–1,440 ft

Median elevation640 ft

Median slope17°

Where the ground sits

400 ft1,440 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 29%

S 27%

W 19%

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

Lake Sonoma Archery Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone A25 · 87% public Covelo Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone A30 · 36% public Little Dry Creek Apprentice Shotgun Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J9 · 99% public Gray Lodge Shotgun Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone G12 · 99% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deer 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.