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Units / Wyoming / Moose area 42

West Bighorn · Moose area 42 · Wyoming

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.

Moose area 42Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

84%

1,057,478 ac of 1,256,702 ac

Landlocked public

1,453 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

13%

of public · 138,290 ac

Walk-in access

12,896 ac

private land opened to hunting

Moose · 2024 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

75% success

6 taken by 8 hunters · 78 days afield

5 bucks · 1 does · 0 fawns

Res 100% · Res 50% · NR 0% success

Moose hunter success · 2021–2024 · 93% → 75%

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Wyoming moose draw odds — 2 hunts here

10 tags drawn on this moose area last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,630–13,140 ft
Median elevation5,830 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft13,140 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 18%
E 15%
S 29%
W 39%

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

Goose Creek · Moose area 1 · 65% publicHunter Mesa · Moose area 34 · 53% publicGreybull - Owl Creek · Moose area 9 · 54% publicNorth Fork · Moose area 11 · 84% public

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.