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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 30

Upper Powder River · Deer area 30 · 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 30Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

33%

84,075 ac of 254,042 ac

Landlocked public

3,618 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

11%

of public · 9,123 ac

mule deer · 2025

29.9% success

99 taken by 331 hunters · 1,752 days afield

99 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 17% · NR 53% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 28% → 30%

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Wyoming deer draw odds

Same number, different ground: Elk area 30

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,600–9,210 ft
Median elevation5,850 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

4,600 ft9,210 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 36%
S 26%
W 15%

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

Hunter Mesa · Deer area 28 · 100% publicBeartrap Creek · Deer area 32 · 36% publicJohnson · Deer area 29 · 20% publicRed Fork · Deer area 33 · 40% 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.