Units / Missouri / Bear zone 1
Black bear hunt area — its own geography, drawn across the county lines. Public land, access, and black bear harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public hunting land
11%
459,751 ac of 4,194,864 ac
Landlocked public
8,354 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
2%
of public · 9,311 ac
Black bear · 2025 · per Bear Management Zone
7 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
Black bear hunter success · 2022–2024 · 5% → 7%
Plan it
Missouri black bear draw odds →
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the county’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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 400 m grid. See the code →
Nearby black bear bear zones
Boundaries from the Missouri Department of Conservation black bear 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.