Clark County Hunting, Units and Land

Clark County by hunting unit

IDFG gives units numbers, not names, and the lines follow roads, rivers and ridges.

Seasons here follow unit lines rather than the county line: 8 units cross it, Unit 59A biggest at 22%. Units 59A and 59 are 90% or more inside the county line.

The county also takes in narrow edges of Units 60 and 51. Of the counties sharing units with Clark County, Lemhi County leads with 3.

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 Clark County

Hunters in Clark County face no CWD zone or testing requirement in 2026.

Clark County wolf lines by unit

The county's units belong to 4 wolf zones (Beaverhead, Island Park, Southern Idaho and Southern Mountains); 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.

Clark County hunt numbers by species

Tags are 2026 counts for the whole hunt.

Hunts whose units reach the county in 2026 total 62, made up of 14 deer, 26 elk, 10 pronghorn, 8 moose, 1 bighorn sheep and 3 mountain goat. The tag total for these hunts is 6,455 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.

Clark County: controlled deer (14)

Controlled elk in Clark County (26)

Controlled pronghorn in Clark County (10)

Clark County moose hunt numbers (8)

Clark County: controlled bighorn sheep (1)

Controlled mountain goat in Clark County (3)

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.

Clark County land by owner

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

Open public ground in Clark County totals 680,113 GIS acres once overlapping layers are counted once; that is 60% of the county. The largest contributor is national forest, at 349,661 acres of Clark County. Roughly 317,502 forest acres in the county belong to the Dubois Ranger District (Caribou-Targhee National Forest), the largest of 4 districts.

The field office with the largest BLM footprint in Clark County is the Upper Snake Field Office, at 330,222 of 330,535 acres. The 77,302 endowment acres are trust land managed for revenue, so they get their own row.

Clark County WMAs, refuges and access areas

Public places past the Clark County line

• Camas National Wildlife Refuge25 miles, wildlife refuge
• Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area27 miles, IDFG WMA
• Fogg Butte / Split Butte / Sand Creek Wildlife Management Area (Access Yes!)34 miles, Access Yes! property
• Sand Creek Wildlife Management Area36 miles, IDFG WMA
• Market Lake Wildlife Management Area36 miles, IDFG WMA
• Upper Lemhi Access Area (Access Yes!)39 miles, Access Yes! property

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.

Clark County neighbours worth a look

Four county guides picked by the shortest centre-to-centre distance, then three statewide planning pages.