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Oregon Elk — Unit 65

Beulah

Oregon Unit 65 covers 1,755,180 acres and lies 44 miles west of Ontario and 83 miles south of La Grande. 57% of it is public land, mostly BLM (37%) and national forest (18%). In 2025, 1,940 people hunted elk here and took 383 — 20% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 886 tags here for 50 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 1 points.

Tags (2026):4,128 Nonresident share:capped at 5% Applicants:217 Hunter success (2025):20% Public land:57% Size:1,755,180 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in Unit 65, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

10 licenses on offer · 4,128 tags · 217 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 265A1 W Beulah No. 1 385 tags · 33 applicants · needed 1 pts
    42% Real chance
  • 265A2 W Beulah No. 2 220 tags · 33 applicants · needed 4 pts
    12% Point builder
  • 265A3 W Beulah No. 3 151 tags · 3 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 265B1 E Beulah No. 1 708 tags · 24 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Likely draw
  • 265B2 E Beulah No. 2 702 tags · 26 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Likely draw
  • 265B3 E Beulah No. 3 591 tags · 27 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Likely draw
  • 265C Bully Cr 220 tags · 11 applicants · needed 1 pts
    24% Long shot
  • 265M E Grant Muzzleloader 243 tags · 9 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Likely draw
  • 265R W Beulah Bow 886 tags · 50 applicants · needed 1 pts
    100% Likely draw
  • 265T Beulah Unit Youth 22 tags · 1 applicants · needed 1 pts
    21% Undersubscribed
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
—
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $203 $203 $863

Application window: opens Dec 1, closes May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Ontario Baker City La Grande Pendleton Prineville
Unit 65 within Oregon
46 47 50 51 62 63 64 66 67 72 Ontario Baker City
Unit 65 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 753,823 ac · 43%
  • BLM 654,606 ac · 37%
  • National Forest 323,028 ac · 18%
  • State land 14,520 ac · 1%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 9,478 ac · 1%
  • Other public 91 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 35 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 1,940 383 20%
2024 2,218 518 23%
2023 2,163 376 17%
2022 2,195 492 22%
2021 2,308 409 18%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Rifle 282 · 74% · 1,397 hunters, 20% success
  • Archery 94 · 25% · 472 hunters, 20% success
  • Muzzleloader 7 · 2% · 71 hunters, 10% success

Boundary: ODFW Wildlife Management Unit boundaries (Compass ArcGIS service)

Harvest: ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

Harvest: ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

Harvest: ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

How we compute draw odds · All Oregon elk hunts