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Units / Wyoming / Goat area 2

Palisades · Goat area 2 · Wyoming

Mountain goat hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and mountain goat harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Goat area 2Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

92%

165,634 ac of 179,324 ac

Landlocked public

200 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

46%

of public · 75,763 ac

Mountain goat · 2024 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

66.7% success

4 taken by 6 hunters · 51 days afield

3 bucks · 1 does · 0 fawns

Res 60% · NR 100% success

Mountain goat hunter success · 2022–2024 · 88% → 67%

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Wyoming mountain goat draw odds — 1 hunt here

2 tags drawn on this goat area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 2

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation5,580–9,930 ft
Median elevation7,400 ft
Median slope20°

Where the ground sits

5,580 ft9,930 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 29%
S 25%
W 21%

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 mountain goat goat areas

Targhee · Goat area 4 · 97% publicSouth Absaroka · Goat area 5 · 75% publicNorth Absaroka · Goat area 3 · 91% publicBeartooth · Goat area 1 · 79% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department mountain goat 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.