Oregon Elk — Unit 40

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Oregon Unit 40 covers 338,289 acres and lies 38 miles south of The Dalles and 54 miles north of Prineville. 10% of it is public land, mostly BLM (9%). In 2025, 93 people hunted elk here and took 40 — 43% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):43% Public land:10% Size:338,289 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in Unit 40 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Oregon elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Unit 40 within Oregon

Unit 40 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

Private 305,676 ac · 90%
BLM 31,480 ac · 9%
Other public 884 ac · 0%
State land 328 ac · 0%
Tribal 10 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Oregon/Washington Land Status Ownership (BLM_OR_Ownership MapServer)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 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. Oregon requires every tag holder to report, but the numbers ODFW publishes are survey estimates expanded from the reporting rate — the agency's own tables are titled "Estimated harvest... based on Mandatory Harvest Survey Reports" — not a count of animals checked in.