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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 31

Salt Creek · Deer area 31 · 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 31Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

52%

63,776 ac of 122,533 ac

Landlocked public

4,391 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

4%

of public · 2,293 ac

mule deer · 2025

36.4% success

20 taken by 55 hunters · 166 days afield

20 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 34% · NR 50% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 38% → 36%

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Wyoming deer draw odds →

Same number, different ground: Elk area 31 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,480–5,580 ft
Median elevation4,900 ft
Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

4,480 ft5,580 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%
E 30%
S 18%
W 33%

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

Tisdale Mountain · Deer area 169 · 51% publicJohnson · Deer area 29 · 20% publicNorth Natrona · Deer area 34 · 66% publicDouglas · Deer area 22 · 20% 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.