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Oregon's Northeast zone: hunting units, harvest and public land

ODFW's Northeast zone has 22 wildlife management units and is 42.5% public land, by USGS PAD-US. Adding up ODFW's rows for its units, hunters took 6,750 elk and 7,345 deer here in 2025, and 96 pronghorn.

Data updated October 2026. Harvest: ODFW, 2020 to 2025. Land: USGS PAD-US 4.1. Seasons: ODFW's 2026 regulations.

Map of Oregon's wildlife management units with ODFW's Northeast zone shaded: units 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65
The Northeast zone's units shaded and numbered.

ODFW's Northeast zone is the Blue Mountains, the Wallowas, Hells Canyon and the Columbia Basin wheat country, 22 units from Columbia Basin and Fossil east to Snake River and Imnaha and south to Beulah.

Which units are in the Northeast zone?

Every unit in the zone with ODFW's 2025 harvest and its public land. The most elk were taken in Unit 48 Heppner (708), Unit 52 Starkey (694) and Unit 49 Ukiah (559). The most public land: Unit 59 (93.8%), Unit 50 (86.4%) and Unit 62 (76%).

UnitNameSquare milesPublic landElk, 2025Deer, 2025Pronghorn, 2025
Unit 44Columbia Basin2,8641.3%16293218
Unit 45Fossil1,41015.3%3514146
Unit 46Murderers Creek1,15068.1%32841431
Unit 47Northside1,11640.3%4662973
Unit 48Heppner1,44134.1%7085261
Unit 49Ukiah87734.7%559267
Unit 50Desolation67286.4%283249
Unit 51Sumpter1,52645.4%3674705
Unit 52Starkey80864.4%694162
Unit 53Catherine Creek66424.2%3032013
Unit 54Mt. Emily77044.1%173226
Unit 55Walla Walla30632.8%109126
Unit 56Wenaha41373%103188
Unit 57Sled Springs88420.9%311709
Unit 58Chesnimnus65849.2%279207
Unit 59Snake River46093.8%185115
Unit 60Minam57673.4%106294
Unit 61Imnaha42574.5%310239
Unit 62Pine Creek37876%230138
Unit 63Keating60857.3%1332345
Unit 64Lookout Mountain55637.8%20714210
Unit 65Beulah2,74456.5%38379514

Harvest: ODFW harvest statistics (2020 to 2025), ODFW's rows for each unit added up across general and controlled tags. Public land measured by FilledTag from USGS PAD-US 4.1 (fee land by manager, 2025).

Controlled hunts in the Northeast zone with their own page

149 hunts with three or more years of ODFW harvest and a 2026 draw report, most tags first:

Wildlife areas and access areas in the Northeast zone

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Sources: ODFW harvest statistics (2020 to 2025); USGS PAD-US 4.1 (fee land by manager, 2025); ODFW Wildlife Management Units (Compass dataset); ODFW 2026 Oregon Big Game Hunting Regulations. FilledTag is not part of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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