Units / Wyoming / Bison area 2
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 hunting land
82%
5,936,723 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 · 2,035,437 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 bulls · 11 cows · 0 calves
Res 100% · Res 79% · NR 89% success
Bison hunter success · 2021–2025 · 66% → 81%
Plan it
Wyoming bison draw odds — 2 hunts here →
99 tags drawn on this bison area last season.
Same number, different ground: Elk area 2 →
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.