NDOW Western Region: hunt units and unit groups

Name: NDOW Western Region hunt units: tags, harvest and public land
Creator: FilledTag

NDOW's Western Region covers Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Humboldt, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and Washoe counties: 34 hunt units and 21,943,319 acres, 73.4% of it public land open to hunting (BLM surface management map). In 2025, NDOW issued 1,686 antlered mule deer tags in the region's 22 deer unit groups, and 744 hunters were successful. For antlered elk: 4 tags and 3 successful hunters.

Data updated October 2026. Tags and harvest: NDOW hunt statistics to 2025. Land: BLM.

Map of Nevada's hunt units with NDOW's Western Region shaded and its larger units numbered — Western Region shaded; gray areas are closed to hunting.

The Western Region runs from the Oregon line through the Black Rock Desert and the Lahontan basin to the Sierra front at Reno, Carson City and the Walker River country. NDOW's office for the region is in Reno.

How many tags does NDOW issue in the Western Region?

NDOW's 2025 main hunt for each species, added up over the unit groups whose ground lies mostly in this region:

Species	Unit groups	Tags issued, 2025	Hunters afield	Successful hunters
Mule deer	22	1,686	1,521	744
Elk	1	4	4	3
Pronghorn antelope	15	1,292	1,193	822
Desert bighorn sheep	9	46	45	40
California bighorn sheep	7	27	26	24
Black bear	1	42	35	12

Source: NDOW Big Game Hunt Statistics (2022 to 2025; 2025 from NDOW's 2025 hunt data workbook). A group that crosses a region line is counted where most of its ground is.

Mule deer unit groups

Units 011 - 013: 77 tags, 24 successful
Unit 014: 22 tags, 14 successful
Unit 015: 21 tags, 9 successful
Unit 021: 55 tags, 24 successful
Unit 022: 65 tags, 31 successful
Unit 031: 151 tags, 74 successful
Unit 032: 88 tags, 28 successful
Unit 033: 39 tags, 20 successful
Unit 034: 27 tags, 11 successful
Unit 035: 58 tags, 20 successful
Units 041, 042: 34 tags, 11 successful
Units 043, 044, 046: 152 tags, 74 successful
Unit 045: 51 tags, 21 successful
Unit 051: 223 tags, 101 successful
Units 181 - 184: 237 tags, 92 successful
Unit 192: 55 tags, 22 successful
Units 194, 196: 52 tags, 35 successful
Unit 195: 25 tags, 9 successful
Units 201, 204: 40 tags, 17 successful
Units 202, 205 - 208: 68 tags, 40 successful
Unit 203: 56 tags, 21 successful
Unit 291: 90 tags, 46 successful

Elk unit groups

Unit 051: 4 tags, 3 successful

Pronghorn antelope unit groups

Unit 011: 48 tags, 31 successful
Units 012 - 014: 127 tags, 62 successful
Unit 015: 113 tags, 57 successful
Units 021, 022: 75 tags, 59 successful
Unit 031: 154 tags, 87 successful
Units 032, 034: 80 tags, 31 successful
Unit 033: 56 tags, 32 successful
Unit 035: 39 tags, 33 successful
Units 041, 042: 88 tags, 69 successful
Units 043 - 046: 257 tags, 173 successful
Unit 051: 106 tags, 69 successful
Units 181 - 184: 91 tags, 78 successful
Units 202, 204: 10 tags, 7 successful
Units 203, 291: 19 tags, 15 successful
Units 205 - 208: 29 tags, 19 successful

Desert bighorn sheep unit groups

Units 044, 182: 7 tags, 5 successful
Unit 045: 2 tags, 1 successful
Units 183, 153: 10 tags, 10 successful
Unit 181 (East, West): 7 tags, 6 successful
Unit 202: 6 tags, 6 successful
Unit 204: 2 tags, 1 successful
Unit 205: 4 tags, 4 successful
Units 206, 208: 6 tags, 5 successful
Unit 207: 2 tags, 2 successful

California bighorn sheep unit groups

Unit 012: 3 tags, 1 successful
Unit 022: 2 tags, 2 successful
Unit 031 (Double Hs): 2 tags, 2 successful
Units 032, 033: 3 tags, 3 successful
Unit 034: 5 tags, 5 successful
Unit 035 (Bloody Runs, Jacksons): 10 tags, 9 successful
Unit 051: 2 tags, 2 successful

Black bear unit groups

Units 192, 194 - 196, 201 - 204, 206, 291: 42 tags, 12 successful

Every hunt unit in the Western Region

Unit	County	Square miles	Public land	Pages by species
Unit 011	Washoe	665	81.9%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 012	Washoe, Humboldt	1,077	93.5%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 013	Washoe	612	91.6%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 014	Washoe	499	94.9%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 015	Washoe	1,192	88.5%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 021	Washoe	437	56.7%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 022	Washoe	1,517	40.3%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 031	Humboldt	1,507	85%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 032	Humboldt	623	91.5%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 033	Humboldt, Washoe	849	99.5%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 034	Humboldt, Pershing	1,416	96.8%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 035	Humboldt	1,705	81.1%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer
Unit 041	Pershing, Churchill, Washoe	2,617	77.8%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 042	Pershing, Humboldt	1,261	58.6%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 043	Pershing, Churchill	807	47.3%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 044	Pershing	994	63.9%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 045	Pershing	400	95.1%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 046	Humboldt, Pershing	616	73%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer
Unit 051	Humboldt	2,697	71.3%	Pronghorn antelope, California bighorn sheep, Mule deer, Elk
Unit 181	Churchill, Mineral	2,377	45.4%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 182	Churchill, Pershing	1,063	82%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 183	Churchill, Lander, Pershing	1,463	80.5%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 192	Douglas	202	36%	Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 194	Washoe, Carson City, Douglas	367	52.7%	Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 195	Storey, Lyon, Washoe	557	22.5%	Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 196	Washoe	79	40.4%	Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 201	Douglas, Lyon	186	71.3%	Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 202	Mineral, Lyon	892	75.4%	Pronghorn antelope, Black bear, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 203	Lyon	942	57.5%	Pronghorn antelope, Black bear, Mule deer
Unit 204	Lyon, Mineral	448	95.7%	Pronghorn antelope, Black bear, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 205	Mineral, Nye	1,295	59.9%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 206	Mineral	983	89.9%	Pronghorn antelope, Black bear, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 207	Mineral	537	98.5%	Pronghorn antelope, Mule deer, Desert bighorn sheep
Unit 291	Douglas, Lyon, Carson City	774	66.1%	Pronghorn antelope, Black bear, Mule deer

How much public land is in the Western Region?

Manager	Acres	Share of the region
BLM	13,927,714	63.5%
National forest	1,151,821	5.2%
Military and Energy Department	841,990	3.8%
Tribal land	727,097	3.3%
National wildlife refuge	668,867	3%
Bureau of Reclamation	317,862	1.4%
State land	43,161	0.2%

Measured by FilledTag from BLM Surface Management Agency map (national, limited scale) inside NDOW's region boundary.

Wildlife management areas in the Western Region

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Sources: NDOW Big Game Hunt Statistics (2022 to 2025; 2025 from NDOW's 2025 hunt data workbook); BLM Surface Management Agency map (national, limited scale); NDOW regions. FilledTag is not part of the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

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