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

ODFW's Northwest zone has 10 wildlife management units and is 39.1% public land, by USGS PAD-US. Adding up ODFW's rows for its units, hunters took 4,691 elk and 15,979 deer here in 2025.

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 Northwest zone shaded: units 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20
The Northwest zone's units shaded and numbered.

ODFW's Northwest zone runs from the Columbia River south through the northern Coast Range to the Siuslaw, and east across the Willamette Valley to the west slope of the Cascades in the Santiam and McKenzie units. Western Oregon's general deer season and the Coast and West Cascade general elk seasons cover all of it.

Which units are in the Northwest zone?

Every unit in the zone with ODFW's 2025 harvest and its public land. The most elk were taken in Unit 10 Saddle Mountain (1,065), Unit 14 Trask (778) and Unit 18 Alsea (706). The most public land: Unit 12 (66.2%), Unit 16 (62.6%) and Unit 19 (60.3%).

UnitNameSquare milesPublic landElk, 2025Deer, 2025Pronghorn, 2025
Unit 10Saddle Mountain1,03522.7%1,0651,267
Unit 11Scappoose7738%6391,134
Unit 12Wilson57766.2%409711
Unit 14Trask1,32040.5%7782,031
Unit 15Willamette2,9001.5%1371,699
Unit 16Santiam3,33462.6%3033,097
Unit 17Stott Mountain49821.4%174686
Unit 18Alsea1,95941.7%7061,456
Unit 19McKenzie2,64760.3%1972,817
Unit 20Siuslaw1,51640.3%2831,081

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 Northwest zone with their own page

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

Wildlife areas and access areas in the Northwest 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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