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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 142

Piney-Horse Creek · Deer area 142 · Wyoming

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

Deer area 142Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

52%

200,333 ac of 381,616 ac

Landlocked public

1,900 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

36%

of public · 72,214 ac

mule deer · 2025

23.1% success

131 taken by 566 hunters · 3,351 days afield

131 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 19% · NR 46% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 35% → 23%

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation6,820–11,050 ft
Median elevation7,670 ft
Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

6,820 ft11,050 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 27%
E 24%
S 33%
W 17%

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 deer deer areas

Monument Ridge · Deer area 153 · 97% publicRaspberry Ridge · Deer area 154 · 86% publicNew Fork · Deer area 140 · 62% publicGreys River · Deer area 144 · 100% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer 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.