Idaho Elk — Unit 49-1X
Idaho Unit 49-1X covers 568,969 acres and lies 11 miles east of Bellevue and 21 miles south-east of Ketchum. 64% of it is public land, mostly BLM (28%) and national forest (24%). In 2022, 133 people hunted elk here and took 69 — 52% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Idaho Department of Fish and Game has not offered an elk license in Unit 49-1X in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Idaho elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 204,702 ac · 36%
- BLM 161,317 ac · 28%
- National Forest 138,896 ac · 24%
- State land 36,254 ac · 6%
- National Park Service 27,758 ac · 5%
- Bureau of Reclamation 39 ac · 0%
Source: BLM Idaho Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)
How the hunting has gone
What Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Idaho Department of Fish and Game publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Idaho's figures are counts from mandatory hunter reports and check stations rather than survey estimates, so they behave differently from the survey states.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 133 | 69 | 52% |
| 2021 | 139 | 57 | 41% |
What people carried (2022 harvest)
- Firearm 69 · 100% · 133 hunters, 52% success
Boundary: Controlled Hunts - All Species, BigGame='Elk' AND Year=2025 (hunt-area boundaries)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2022 (general + controlled hunt tables)
Harvest: Idaho Hunt Planner Harvest Statistics, elk 2021 (general + controlled hunt tables)