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Units / California / Elk zone 25

Whitney · Elk zone 25 · California

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

Elk zone 25Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

99%

98,818 ac of 100,129 ac

Landlocked public

82 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

27%

of public · 27,063 ac

Elk · 2022

100% success

1 taken by 1 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2010–2022 · 100% → 100%

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California elk draw odds — 2 hunts here →

2 tags drawn on this elk zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation3,660–14,300 ft
Median elevation5,530 ft
Median slope7°

Where the ground sits

3,660 ft14,300 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 31%
E 50%
S 13%
W 6%

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 elk elk zones

Goodale · Elk zone 24 · 99% publicIndependence · Elk zone 23 · 99% publicLone Pine · Elk zone 26 · 86% publicWest Tinemaha · Elk zone 21 · 99% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife elk 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.