Units / Wyoming / Sheep area 9
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.
Public land
95%
153,310 ac of 161,604 ac
Landlocked public
40 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
91%
of public · 140,188 ac
Bighorn sheep · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
20% success
1 taken by 5 hunters · 43 days afield
1 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns
Res 25% · NR 0% success
Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2021–2025 · 60% → 20%
Plan it
Wyoming bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →
5 tags drawn on this sheep area last season.
Same number, different ground: Elk area 9 →
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
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 200 m grid. See the code →
Nearby bighorn sheep sheep areas
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.