Unit research · Idaho Unit 1

Unit 1 — Idaho

69% public across 1,584,328 ac. Road access is easy — only 17% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Black bear draw odds (1)Deer draw odds (7)Elk draw odds (3)Moose draw odds (9)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,750–7,630 ft

elevation range

69%

public land

17%

of public >1 mi from a road

5,115 ac

landlocked public

2.34

road miles per mi²

3,154 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

20 limited-entry black bear, deer, elk and moose hunts are drawn on Unit 1: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Black bear tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$20.00 resident · $249.75 nonresident

Deer tag · 7 draw hunts (2026)$31.00 resident · $369.75 nonresident

Elk tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

Moose tag · 9 draw hunts (2026)$216.50 resident · $2,672.50 nonresident

Plus: Idaho hunting licence$15.75 resident · $185.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Idaho Department of Fish and Game's regulations

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗

Idaho black bear, deer, elk and moose draw calendar

Jan 15, 2027 — applications open
Feb 15, 2027 — application deadline
Apr 1, 2027 — applications open

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho black bear →Draw odds for Idaho deer →Draw odds for Idaho elk →Draw odds for Idaho moose →How the Idaho draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Idaho Department of Fish and Game, 2026, verified 2026-08-13. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents · IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, nonresidents · IDFG — Controlled hunt application information.

Land & access

■ USFS 52%■ SDOL 15%■ BLM 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 31%

Unit area1,584,328 ac

Public land1,092,339 ac (69%)

Landlocked public5,115 ac (0.5%)

Elk draw pressure0.015 tags/mi² public (0.010 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)5,800 mi

Maintained trails3,154 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road185,042 ac (17% of public)

Road density2.34 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 827k ac · SDOL 242k ac · BLM 11k ac

Elevation1,750–7,630 ft

Median elevation3,520 ft

Median slope15°

Where the ground sits

1,750 ft7,630 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 21%

E 26%

S 25%

W 28%

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 →

Unit intelligence report

67,785 ac of this unit has burned — 4% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · by unit

34% success

2,838 taken by 8,248 hunters · 58,295 days afield

2,045 bucks · 793 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 51% → 34%

IDFG harvest by Game Management Unit, one row per unit per season per take method. Success rates and hunter days are published by IDFG and carried verbatim wherever a row comes straight from the department; nothing here is derived except where several hunts share one area, and there the rate is recomputed from the summed hunters and harvest because a per-hunt percentage does not survive being added up. Where a cell is blank IDFG suppressed a small sample, and it stays blank rather than being back-computed. Take method ("Any Weapon", "Archery", "Muzzleloader") is the variant for general seasons and the rows are NOT summable — each is its own season, not a component of a total. IDFG's own "All Weapons Combined" row is carried as the `all` variant, so the total is the department's arithmetic rather than ours. Idaho's draw-only animals have no general season at all. Moose, mountain goat and both bighorn herds appear under a `controlled` variant covering the limited-entry hunts, and the two sheep herds stay separate — a Rocky Mountain and a California bighorn are different animals in different mountains, with their own once-in-a-lifetime rules. Source: IDFG Hunt Planner — general hunt harvest statistics by unit (deer) · IDFG Hunt Planner map service — HarvestStats_mainTbl (all other species).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
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Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 4A51% public · 1% remote Unit 218% public · 1% remote Unit 355% public · 3% remote Unit 479% public · 3% remote Unit 56% public · 0% remote Unit 655% public · 4% remote

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What happens nextJan 15 — Black bear applications open · details →Feb 15 — Black bear application deadline · details →Apr 1 — Moose applications open · details →