Units / Missouri / Bear zone 3
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
4%
611,015 ac of 13,974,066 ac
Landlocked public
7,928 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
1%
of public · 5,506 ac
Walk-in access
2,453 ac
private land opened to hunting
Black bear · 2025 · per Bear Management Zone
0 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
Black bear hunter success · 2022–2024 · 0% → 0%
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 800 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; 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.