Latah County for Idaho Hunters

Latah 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: 3 units cross it, Unit 8 biggest at 53%. The county also takes in narrow edges of Unit 6.

Of the counties sharing units with Latah County, Clearwater 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 Latah County

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

Latah County wolf lines by unit

The county's units belong to 2 wolf zones (Palouse – Hells Canyon and 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.

Latah County hunt numbers by species

Tags are 2026 counts for the whole hunt.

Hunts whose units reach the county in 2026 total 13, made up of 2 deer, 5 elk and 6 moose. The tag total for these hunts is 306 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.

Latah County: controlled deer (2)

Controlled elk in Latah County (5)

Latah County moose hunt numbers (6)

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.

Latah County land by owner

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

Open public ground in Latah County totals 111,874 GIS acres once overlapping layers are counted once; that is 16% of the county. No owner outweighs national forest here: 111,674 acres. Roughly 98,216 forest acres in the county belong to the Palouse Ranger District (Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest), the largest of 2 districts.

The 32,324 endowment acres are trust land managed for revenue, so they get their own row. Reservation and trust land (25 acres) is closed to state-licensed hunters without tribal permission, and it is not in the public total.

Latah County WMAs, refuges and access areas

• Palouse River Upland Game Youth Area – West (Access Yes!)Access Yes! property
• PotlatchDeltic (Large Tracts)Large Tracts area
• North Idaho Timber Group (Large Tracts)Large Tracts area
• Nez Perce-Clearwater National ForestNational forest
• Idaho Panhandle National ForestsNational forest
• St. Joe Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Palouse Ranger DistrictRanger district
• Coeur d'Alene DistrictBLM district
• Cottonwood Field OfficeBLM field office

Public places past the Latah County line

• Lower Genesee Area (Access Yes!)24 miles, Access Yes! property
• Mica Creek Drainage on St. Joe River (Access Yes!)36 miles, Access Yes! property
• Hugas Creek & St. Joe River Basin (Access Yes!)36 miles, Access Yes! property

Latah County ground off the hunting map

• Mary Minerva McCroskey State ParkState park, closed

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.

Latah County event listings

On November 11, 2026 the county showed 2 dates ahead, covering DU conservation dinner and RMEF chapter banquet.

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Latah County and its nearest counties

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