Oregon Elk · Unit 43 Biggs
Oregon Unit 43 spans 1,263,494 acres, centered 32 miles south-east of The Dalles. 15% of it is public land, mostly BLM (12%) and state land (2%). In 2025, 275 people hunted elk here and took 131, a 48% success rate (sum of published weapon rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
12% BLM
1,263,494 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in Unit 43 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.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 275 | 131 | 48% |
| 2024 (summed) | 246 | 118 | 48% |
| 2023 (summed) | 246 | 102 | 41% |
| 2022 (summed) | 248 | 113 | 46% |
| 2021 (summed) | 189 | 70 | 37% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 244 columbia plateau | 248 | 113 | 46% |
| Eastern elk archery | 27 | 18 | 67% |
2025 split: rifle 113 (86%) from 248 hunters, 46%, archery 18 (14%) from 27 hunters, 67%
What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone; ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest….
The Ground
| Private | 1,075,202 ac | 85% |
| BLM | 149,629 ac | 12% |
| State land | 27,506 ac | 2% |
| Other public | 4,730 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 4,283 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 1,924 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 12
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
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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