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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 168

Medicine Butte · Deer area 168 · 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 168Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

44%

126,691 ac of 287,069 ac

Landlocked public

4,963 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

8%

of public · 10,052 ac

Walk-in access

58,458 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

35.8% success

192 taken by 536 hunters · 2,366 days afield

192 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 34% · NR 57% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 19% → 36%

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation6,490–8,600 ft
Median elevation6,940 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,490 ft8,600 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%
E 21%
S 26%
W 22%

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

Uinta · Deer area 133 · 19% publicBear River Divide · Deer area 134 · 54% publicCedar Mountain · Deer area 132 · 67% publicWest Green River · Deer area 135 · 75% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer 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.