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Sheep Mountain · Sheep area 8 · Wyoming

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

Sheep area 8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

83%

403,891 ac of 485,426 ac

Landlocked public

1,601 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

63%

of public · 255,003 ac

Bighorn sheep · 2025

0 harvested

0 taken by 0 hunters · 0 days afield

0 bucks · 0 does · 0 fawns

Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2021–2024 · 43% → 50%

Plan it

See it on the map →

Wyoming bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →

2 tags drawn on this sheep area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 8 →

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

Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation7,140–13,560 ft

Median elevation8,980 ft

Median slope10°

Where the ground sits

7,140 ft13,560 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%

E 20%

S 26%

W 35%

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 bighorn sheep sheep areas

Dinwoody · Sheep area 9 · 95% public Jakey's Fork · Sheep area 10 · 92% public Jackson · Sheep area 7 · 96% public Dubois Badlands · Sheep area 22 · 83% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bighorn sheep 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.