Oregon Elk · Unit 69 Steens Mtn
Oregon Unit 69 spans 1,224,566 acres, centered 49 miles south-east of Burns. 64% of it is public land, mostly BLM (49%) and wildlife refuge (10%). In 2025, 112 people hunted elk here and took 10, a 9% success rate (sum of published weapon rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
49% BLM
1,224,566 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 69 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) | 112 | 10 | 9% |
| 2024 (summed) | 133 | 14 | 11% |
| 2023 (summed) | 128 | 20 | 16% |
| 2022 (summed) | 153 | 18 | 12% |
| 2021 (summed) | 175 | 24 | 14% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 278a1 high desert no. 1 | 30 | 1 | 5% |
| 278a2 high desert no. 2 | 35 | 3 | 8% |
| Eastern elk archery | 31 | 5 | 18% |
| 278m high desert muzzleloader | 16 | 1 | 8% |
2025 split: rifle 4 (40%) from 65 hunters, 6%, archery 5 (50%) from 31 hunters, 16%, muzzleloader 1 (10%) from 16 hunters, 6%
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 Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone; ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest….
The Ground
| BLM | 600,212 ac | 49% |
| Private | 442,687 ac | 36% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 120,972 ac | 10% |
| State land | 60,069 ac | 5% |
| Tribal | 538 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 17
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 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 2023 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 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 2022 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 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 2021 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 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 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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