Units / Wyoming / Bison area 1
Bison hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and bison harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
78%
6,111,627 ac of 7,808,821 ac
Landlocked public
25,823 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
28%
of public · 1,704,889 ac
Walk-in access
370,791 ac
private land opened to hunting
Plan it
Same number, different ground: Elk area 1 →
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 400 m grid. See the code →
Nearby bison bison areas
Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bison hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.