Units / Wyoming / Moose area 40
Moose hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and moose harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public land
54%
522,767 ac of 975,760 ac
Landlocked public
843 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
12%
of public · 60,313 ac
Walk-in access
6,239 ac
private land opened to hunting
Moose · 2024 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
100% success
6 taken by 6 hunters · 30 days afield
3 bucks · 2 does · 1 fawns
Res 100% · Res 100% success
Moose hunter success · 2021–2024 · 83% → 100%
Plan it
Wyoming moose draw odds — 2 hunts here →
6 tags drawn on this moose area last season.
Same number, different ground: Elk area 40 →
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 200 m grid. See the code →
Nearby moose moose areas
Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department moose 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.