Oregon Elk — Unit 43

Biggs

Oregon Unit 43 covers 1,263,494 acres and lies 32 miles south-east of The Dalles and 71 miles south-west of Hermiston. 15% of it is public land, mostly BLM (12%) and state land (2%). In 2025, 275 people hunted elk here and took 131 — 48% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):48% Public land:15% Size:1,263,494 acres

Your chance of drawing here

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.

The country

Unit 43 within Oregon

Unit 43 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 1,075,202 ac · 85%
BLM 149,629 ac · 12%
State land 27,506 ac · 2%
Other public 4,730 ac · 0%
Tribal 4,283 ac · 0%
National Park Service 1,924 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.