California Elk · Marble Mountains Roosevelt Elk Hunt

California Marble Mountains spans 4,580,677 acres, centered 40 miles north of Hayfork. 67% of it is public land, mostly national forest (62%) and BLM (3%). In 2022, 53 people hunted roosevelt here and took 34, a 64% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 302, put up 34 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 2,685 first-choice applicants (one pool for residents and nonresidents).

Tags, 2025
56

4 licenses · NR capped at 1 tag statewide

Applicants
3,495

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
64%

2022, roosevelt

Public Land
67%

92% Forest Service

Size
7,157 mi²

4,580,677 acres

Hayfork McArthur Marble Mountains
64%hunter success 2022 · 53 hunters, 34 elk

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2022. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Marble Mountains

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
301 <1% —
302 <1% —
303 <1% —
408 · youth <1% (small sample) —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics; CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics; CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $2,053.79 ($227.94 to apply). Open Apr 15 – Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Roosevelt

Year Hunters Elk Success
2022 (summed) 53 34 64%

All elk

Year Hunters Elk Success
2021 (summed) 23 11 48%
2022 by LicenseHuntersElkSuccess
Roosevelt · 4 licenses 4 4 100%
Roosevelt · 10 licenses 10 3 30%
Roosevelt · 7 licenses 7 2 25%
Roosevelt · 32 licenses 32 25 74%

What California Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. California Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-zone line for 2022; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: CDFW 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics; CDFW 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates.

The Ground

National Forest 2,845,499 ac 62%
BLM 157,838 ac 3%
National Park Service 42,234 ac <1%
Other public 21,747 ac <1%
State land 7,622 ac <1%
County or city land 3,747 ac <1%
Private or other non-public land 1,501,987 ac 33%

Source: GreenInfo Network 2026 Protected Areas Database a.

▸ Sources 8
  1. CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. CDFW 2025 Elk Tag Drawing Statistics draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. CDFW 2025 Big Game Hunting Digest fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. CDFW 2022 Elk Harvest Statistics harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. CDFW 2021 Elk Harvest Success Rates harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. CDFW 2023 Elk Hunt Zones boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. GreenInfo Network 2026 Protected Areas Database a land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from California Department of Fish and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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