Moose unit M8 · North Dakota

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

Moose unit M8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

40,800 ac of 1,803,727 ac

Landlocked public

3,178 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 0 ac

Plan it

See it on the map →

North Dakota moose draw odds — 2 hunts here →

123 tags drawn on this moose unit last season.

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the unit’s

Elevation1,460–2,030 ft

Median elevation1,580 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

1,460 ft2,030 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%

E 24%

S 25%

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 →

Nearby moose moose units

Moose unit M4 · 9% public Moose unit M9 · 4% public Moose unit M1C · 1% public Moose unit M5 · 2% public

Boundaries from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department moose 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.