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Units / Pennsylvania / Elk hunt zone 8

Elk Hunt Zone 8 · Elk hunt zone 8 · Pennsylvania

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

Elk hunt zone 8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

78%

19,451 ac of 25,084 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 267 ac

Elk · 2023

4 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

Elk harvest · 2017–2023 · 8 → 4

Season breakdown · 2023
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery—0—

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

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Terrain — this boundary, not the WMU’s

Elevation850–2,260 ft
Median elevation1,790 ft
Median slope11°

Where the ground sits

850 ft2,260 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 33%
E 25%
S 22%
W 20%

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 elk elk hunt zones

Elk Hunt Zone 7 · Elk hunt zone 7 · 59% publicElk Hunt Zone 6 · Elk hunt zone 6 · 65% publicElk Hunt Zone 9 · Elk hunt zone 9 · 32% publicElk Hunt Zone 3 · Elk hunt zone 3 · 95% public

Boundaries from the Pennsylvania Game Commission elk 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.