Oregon Elk — Unit 70
Beatys Butte
Oregon Unit 70 covers 1,684,166 acres and lies 126 miles east of Klamath Falls. 83% of it is public land, mostly BLM (68%) and wildlife refuge (12%). In 2025, 3 people hunted elk here and took 0 — 0% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered an elk license in Unit 70 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- BLM 1,141,078 ac · 68%
- Private 283,884 ac · 17%
- National Wildlife Refuge 204,766 ac · 12%
- State land 44,977 ac · 3%
- Other public 8,306 ac · 0%
Source: BLM Oregon/Washington Land Status Ownership (BLM_OR_Ownership MapServer)
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 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 22% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 7 | 0 | 0% |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Rifle 0 · 1 hunters, 0% success
- Archery 0 · 2 hunters, 0% success
- Muzzleloader 0
Boundary: ODFW Wildlife Management Unit boundaries (Compass ArcGIS service)
Harvest: ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader 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 Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt