Boundary County Hunting Guide

Boundary County by hunting unit

Of county: how much of the county lies in the unit. Of unit: how much of the unit lies in the county.

Seasons here follow unit lines rather than the county line: 1 units cross it, Unit 1 biggest at 100%. Of the counties sharing units with Boundary County, Bonner County leads with 1.

Unit shares from the IDFG Game Units layer overlaid on Census county polygons (GIS shares of land area, both ways); elk zone of each unit from the IDFG Elk Zones layer; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer; CWD units from the 2026 brochure; bear tables from the 2026 brochure. Checked November 12, 2026.

CWD and wolf rules for Boundary County

Within Boundary County, Unit 1 belongs to the CWD Management Zone for 2026. Two rules follow the zone line: no whole deer, elk or moose leave it, and every harvested deer is tested within 10 days.

Boundary County wolf lines by unit

The county's units belong to 1 wolf zone (Panhandle); seasons follow units and whether the land is public or private. Wolf trapping requires the trapping license and wolf trapper education, and transmitting trail cameras are allowed for checks from July 1, 2026.

CWD zone, transport and testing rules from the Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules p. 9; 2026 changes from IDFG, What hunters need to know about CWD requirements for 2026; county units from the IDFG CWD zone rules; wolf rules from the 2026 brochure; wolf zones from the IDFG Wolf Zones layer. Checked November 12, 2026.

Boundary County hunt numbers by species

Tags are 2026 counts for the whole hunt.

Hunts whose units reach the county in 2026 total 25, made up of 11 deer, 4 elk, 9 moose and 1 black bear. The tag total for these hunts is 1,586 in 2026, counted by hunt rather than by county.

A second application period, August 5 to 15, covers tags left after the first draw, and controlled tags must be bought by August 1. The once-in-a-lifetime species use the 2025 and 2026 brochure dates for the 2026 hunt.

Boundary County: controlled deer (11)

Controlled elk in Boundary County (4)

Boundary County moose hunt numbers (9)

Boundary County: controlled black bear (1)

Hunt numbers, types, units, dates, bags and 2026 tags from the IDFG Hunt Planner hunt pages (each hunt number links its page) matched to the Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons and Rules and the Moose, Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat 2025 and 2026 brochure; counties are whole units, so a hunt area can be smaller. Application periods from the 2026 brochure, the moose, sheep and goat brochure and the spring bear page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Boundary County public land, owner by owner

Solid points on the map are places in the county; hollow ones lie just outside it.

Open public ground in Boundary County totals 529,873 GIS acres once overlapping layers are counted once; that is 65% of the county. National forest accounts for 518,996 of those acres, more than any other owner here. Roughly 420,941 forest acres in the county belong to the Bonners Ferry Ranger District (Idaho Panhandle National Forests), the largest of 4 districts.

The field office with the largest BLM footprint in Boundary County is the Coeur d'Alene Field Office, at 4,544 of 4,544 acres. The 109,899 endowment acres are trust land managed for revenue, so they get their own row. Reservation and trust land (3,286 acres) is closed to state-licensed hunters without tribal permission, and it is not in the public total.

Boundary County reservations and trust land

• Kootenai Off-Reservation Trust Land3,262 GIS acres · closed

Boundary County public places by owner

Open land a short drive from Boundary County

• Pend Oreille Wildlife Management Area32 miles, IDFG WMA

Acres are GIS measures of polygons with water over 2 square km removed, not official acreage: IDFG WMA layer, PAD-US 4.1 (forest, grassland, BLM, refuge, park, endowment, Reclamation, military, DOE and tribal land), IDFG Access Yes! 2026 layer, IDFG Large Tracts layer; refuges counted only when listed in 50 CFR 32.31; tribal rule from 18 U.S.C. 1165; closures from the 2026 brochure; Craters of the Moon from the NPS laws and policies page. Checked November 12, 2026.

Counties near Boundary County

The four cards are the counties whose middles sit nearest this one; the buttons open statewide topics.