Oregon Antelope (Pronghorn) · Unit 48 Heppner
Oregon Unit 48 covers 922,104 acres and lies 48 miles south-west of Pendleton and 63 miles west of La Grande. 34% of it is public land, mostly national forest (27%) and BLM (7%). In 2025, 5 people hunted pronghorn here and took 1 (sum of published hunt rows).
0 licenses · NR capped at 3%
first choice, NR
not published
27% Forest Service
922,104 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 a pronghorn license in Unit 48 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it; the Oregon pronghorn hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Pronghorn | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| 2024 (summed) | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 (summed) | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2022 (summed) | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| 2021 (summed) | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Pronghorn | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 440a1 columbia plateau no. 1 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 440a2 columbia plateau no. 2 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| 447 northside - ritter | 0 | 0 | 0% |
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 hunt 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 Pronghorn Harvest by…; ODFW 2024 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by…; ODFW 2023 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by….
The Ground
| Private | 605,312 ac | 66% |
| National Forest | 252,875 ac | 27% |
| BLM | 60,065 ac | 7% |
| State land | 4,093 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 7
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… 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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Prior-draw odds from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Oregon pronghorn hunts