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Units / Wyoming / Bison area 2

Jackson · Bison area 2 · Wyoming

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.

Bison area 2Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

82%

5,946,288 ac of 7,218,064 ac

Landlocked public

13,315 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

34%

of public · 2,035,961 ac

Walk-in access

123,036 ac

private land opened to hunting

Bison · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

80.8% success

59 taken by 73 hunters · 943 days afield

48 bucks · 11 does · 0 fawns

Res 100% · Res 79% · NR 89% success

Bison hunter success · 2021–2025 · 66% → 81%

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Wyoming bison draw odds — 2 hunts here

99 tags drawn on this bison area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 2

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation5,590–13,370 ft
Median elevation7,520 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

5,590 ft13,370 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 24%
S 24%
W 28%

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

Absaroka · Bison area 1 · 78% publicNorth Fork · Bison area 3 · 94% public

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.