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Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 126
Lost Springs — Wyoming
18% public across 3,517,299 ac. Road access is easy — only 4% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 48,178 ac of public land has no public route in.
Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →
Tags & season
Tags: check Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
No draw hunts are published for this elk area. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations.
Season dates: see Wyoming Game and Fish Department's regulations
2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF) ↗
Fees and draw dates from Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a elk area that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: 2026 WGFD Hunting License Application Information (booklet PDF) · WGFD license fee list · WGFD preference points · WGFD application dates & deadlines.
Land & access
Backcountry
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 →
Unit intelligence report
125,283 ac of this elk area has burned — 4% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.
Season conditions — measured, not vibes
Historical temperatures · 2000–2025
Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month
Measured at NATRONA COUNTY INTERNATIONAL AP, 145 km from the unit’s center and ~800 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.
Harvest — agency survey estimates
Elk · 2025
38.4% success
367 taken by 955 hunters · 6,870 days afield
159 bulls · 23 spikes · 173 cows · 12 calves
Res 31% · NR 54% success
Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 35% → 38%
WGFD estimates harvest statistics from a voluntary hunter survey run with the University of Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center. "Hunters" are active hunters (license holders who actually hunted). Hunt areas are species-specific geographies. Source: WGFD Annual Harvest Reports (per species-year PDFs) · WGFD Job Completion Reports (per herd unit: population, harvest, success).
How these numbers are made
Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.
Nearby elk areas
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