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OCHOCO — Oregon

54% public hunting land across 1,029,473 ac. Road access is easy — only 2% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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2,260–6,910 ft

elevation range

54%

public hunting land

2%

of public >1 mi from a road

9,622 ac

landlocked public

2.38

road miles per mi²

1,338 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry black bear, elk and pronghorn hunts are drawn on Unit OCHOCO: apply in the Oregon draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Black bear tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$26.50 resident · $26.50 nonresident
Elk tag · 6 draw hunts (2026)$66.00 resident · $670.00 nonresident
Pronghorn tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$68.00 resident · $453.00 nonresident
Plus: Oregon annual hunting licence$39.00 resident · $193.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's regulations

ODFW — Licence, tag and permit fees (2026) ↗

Oregon black bear, elk and pronghorn draw calendar

  • May 15, 2027 — application deadline
  • May 15, 2027 — application deadline

Fees and draw dates from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2026, verified 2026-08-15. 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: ODFW — Licence, tag and permit fees (2026) · ODFW — Controlled hunt applications and tags · ODFW — How to navigate the controlled hunt process (standing May 15 deadline).

Land & access

■ Forest Service 42%■ BLM 11%■ State wildlife 0%▨ Parks & other public 1%□ Private 45%
Unit area1,029,473 ac
Public hunting land555,591 ac (54%)
Parks & other public14,664 ac · Nonprofit preserve, City, County
Landlocked public9,622 ac (1.7%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)3,833 mi
Mapped trails on public land1,338 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road12,780 ac (2% of public)
Road density2.38 mi/mi²
Managed byForest Service 431k ac · BLM 117k ac · State wildlife 3k ac
Elevation2,260–6,910 ft
Median elevation4,480 ft
Median slope8°

Where the ground sits

2,260 ft6,910 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 26%
S 24%
W 26%

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 →

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318,189 ac of this unit has burned — 31% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 49%. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F35° high16° lowJFMAMJJASOND

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at BURNS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, 121 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2024 · controlled hunts

20.7% success

274 taken by 1,325 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2015–2024 · 26% → 21%

Season breakdown · 2024
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery18%32181
Antlerless100%22

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Elk · 2017 · controlled hunts

10.5% success

64 taken by 607 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2015–2017 · 12% → 11%

Season breakdown · 2017
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery11%64607

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Pronghorn · 2017 · controlled hunts

51.2% success

43 taken by 84 hunters

Pronghorn hunter success · 2016–2017 · 58% → 51%

Estimated harvest from ODFW's MANDATORY HARVEST SURVEY — every tag holder is required to report, and the department extrapolates from the returns. These are estimates by construction and ODFW labels them so; the success rates are the department's own and are carried verbatim. Weapon is the VARIANT, because in Oregon a rifle, archery and muzzleloader hunt are separate controlled hunts with separate tags rather than methods within one season. A hunter appears in exactly one. These summaries are also the only published link from an Oregon hunt to its unit. ODFW names its controlled hunts in prose — "Alsea - Stott Mtn", "Aldrich 01 Bow" — and publishes no hunt-to-unit table anywhere; the Unit Name column here is the crosswalk, and without it the draw statistics could not reach a unit page at all. ⚠️ ODFW SPELLS ITS OWN UNITS TWO WAYS. The harvest summaries say "Alsea", "Lookout Mountain", "Murderer's Creek"; the boundary service says "ALSEA", "LOOKOUT MTN", "MURDERERS CREEK". Every harvest row is mapped through the LAYER's ids so a unit named here always exists on the map. Seasons are uneven: the current summaries carry one year each and the dated archive reaches back to 2014, but several of those older files use a layout this reader does not handle and are omitted whole rather than in part. Source: ODFW Big Game Hunting Harvest Statistics (estimated harvest by unit and hunt).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.

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MAURY · Unit MAURY57% public · 6% remoteFOSSIL · Unit FOSSIL15% public · 27% remoteGRIZZLY · Unit GRIZZLY27% public · 7% remoteSILVIES · Unit SILVIES67% public · 2% remoteMURDERERS CREEK · Unit MURDERERS CREEK68% public · 13% remoteNORTHSIDE · Unit NORTHSIDE40% public · 8% remote

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