Units / Wyoming / Elk area 130

Same number, different ground: Deer area 130 →

Unit research · Wyoming Elk area 130

Bolten Rim — Wyoming

47% public across 171,855 ac. Real backcountry here — 50% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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6,470–8,110 ft

elevation range

47%

public land

50%

of public >1 mi from a road

632 ac

landlocked public

0.56

road miles per mi²

0 mi

maintained trails

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) ↗

WGFD license fee list ↗How the Wyoming draw works →

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

■ BLM 43%■ SLB 4%□ Private 53%

Unit area171,855 ac

Public land80,483 ac (47%)

Landlocked public632 ac (0.8%)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)151 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road39,922 ac (50% of public)

Road density0.56 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 74k ac · SLB 7k ac

Elevation6,470–8,110 ft

Median elevation6,940 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

6,470 ft8,110 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 33%

E 21%

S 30%

W 16%

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 →

Unit intelligence report

176 ac of this elk area has burned — 0% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 1%. 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

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

Measured at LARAMIE REGIONAL AIRPORT, 126 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

14.3% success

4 taken by 28 hunters · 471 days afield

4 bulls (bulls only) · 0 spikes · 0 calves

Res 14% success

Elk hunter success · 2021–2025 · 41% → 14%

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

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

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