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Units / Wyoming / Goat area 3

North Absaroka · Goat area 3 · 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 3Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

91%

610,286 ac of 669,019 ac

Landlocked public

1,482 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

67%

of public · 407,417 ac

Mountain goat · 2024 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

80.8% success

21 taken by 26 hunters · 191 days afield

15 bucks · 5 does · 1 fawns

Res 67% · NR 100% · Res 100% · NR 100% success

Mountain goat hunter success · 2022–2024 · 77% → 81%

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Wyoming mountain goat draw odds — 2 hunts here

18 tags drawn on this goat area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 3

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,830–12,070 ft
Median elevation8,190 ft
Median slope21°

Where the ground sits

4,830 ft12,070 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 28%
S 27%
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

Beartooth · Goat area 1 · 79% publicSouth Absaroka · Goat area 5 · 75% publicTarghee · Goat area 4 · 97% publicPalisades · Goat area 2 · 92% 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.