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Units / Wyoming / Moose area 8

Thorofare - Yellowstone · Moose area 8 · 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 8Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

100%

211,856 ac of 211,957 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

100%

of public · 210,850 ac

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Wyoming moose draw odds

Same number, different ground: Elk area 8

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation7,840–12,100 ft
Median elevation9,450 ft
Median slope19°

Where the ground sits

7,840 ft12,100 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 23%
S 24%
W 28%

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

Buffalo River · Moose area 7 · 100% publicFox Park · Moose area 14 · 100% publicEnos Lake · Moose area 32 · 98% publicNorth Fork · Moose area 11 · 84% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department moose 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.