Unit research · Idaho Unit 41

Unit 41 — Idaho

80% public across 1,410,077 ac. Road access is easy — only 12% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Deer draw odds (2)Elk draw odds (5)Pronghorn draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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2,350–7,600 ft

elevation range

80%

public land

12%

of public >1 mi from a road

5,714 ac

landlocked public

1.06

road miles per mi²

2,245 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

9 limited-entry deer, elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit 41: apply in the Idaho draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$31.00 resident · $369.75 nonresident

Elk tag · 5 draw hunts (2026)$43.00 resident · $669.75 nonresident

Pronghorn tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$42.75 resident · $360.75 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 deer, elk and pronghorn draw calendar

May 1, 2027 — applications open
May 1, 2027 — applications open
May 1, 2027 — applications open

IDFG — Licence, tag and permit costs, residents ↗Draw odds for Idaho deer →Draw odds for Idaho elk →Draw odds for Idaho pronghorn →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

■ BLM 74%■ SDOL 6%■ SFW 0%□ Private 20%

Unit area1,410,077 ac

Public land1,132,096 ac (80%)

Landlocked public5,714 ac (0.5%)

Deer draw pressure0.043 tags/mi² public (0.034 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.077 tags/mi² public (0.061 of total area)

Walk-in access95 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,330 mi

Maintained trails2,245 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road130,857 ac (12% of public)

Road density1.06 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 1042k ac · SDOL 89k ac · SFW 2k ac

Elevation2,350–7,600 ft

Median elevation5,270 ft

Median slope2°

Where the ground sits

2,350 ft7,600 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 33%

S 16%

W 25%

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

300,565 ac of this unit has burned — 21% 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

31% success

148 taken by 473 hunters · 2,023 days afield

145 bucks · 3 does

Deer hunter success · 2015–2025 · 19% → 31%

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 4296% public · 24% remote Unit 4676% public · 7% remote Unit 4079% public · 7% remote Unit 4564% public · 8% remote Unit 3838% public · 1% remote Unit 4775% public · 4% remote

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What happens nextMay 1 — Deer applications open · details →May 1 — Elk applications open · details →May 1 — Pronghorn applications open · details →