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Unit 32 (Weiser River Zone)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Mule Deer, Black Bear

Unit 32 lies in Ada, Adams, Boise, Gem and Payette counties and covers about 1,437 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,131 to 5,926 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 31%. Federal land covers about 23% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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23%
Public Land
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2,558–5,237 ft
Sampled elevation

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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 32

Unit 32 lies in Ada, Adams, Boise, Gem and Payette counties and covers about 1,437 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 2,131 to 5,926 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put deer success here as high as 31%. Federal land covers about 23% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit 32

What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for unit 32 is a boundary, not a mule deer map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Ada, Adams, Boise, Gem and Payette counties. It runs to about 1,437 square miles.

How Idaho Fish and Game sets up mule deer hunting in unit 32

Idaho Fish and Game keeps a general deer season page for unit 32, and that page is where this year's dates and weapon rules live.

The lines of the unit: Payette River, Snake River and Sheep Creek

Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 32 in Ada, Adams, Boise, Gem and Payette counties on a line that runs along State Highway 55, State Highway 16, State Highway 52 and U.S. 95, and past Payette River, Snake River and Sheep Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.

High ground inside the line: Sehewoki’i Newenee’an Katete, Fletcher Butte and Willow Ridge

Named high points inside the unit include Sehewoki’i Newenee’an Katete at 5,873 feet, Fletcher Butte at 5,758 feet, Willow Ridge at 5,270 feet, Crown Point at 5,149 feet and Prospect Peak at 4,847 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.

Holding ground: Dodson Pass, Davis Canyon and Big Flat

Below them sit Dodson Pass at 4,266 feet, Davis Canyon at 4,116 feet, Big Flat at 3,834 feet, Coonrod Basin at 3,815 feet and Bear Creek Summit at 3,607 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.

Water: Cherry Spring, Denton Spring and Mossman Spring

The water inside the unit line comes to 533 mapped stream reaches, 49 lakes and 285 stock tanks. Named sources include Cherry Spring, Denton Spring, Mossman Spring, Sandy Spring and Bradford Spring. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.

Reading the land status

Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 32% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. Named ground inside unit 32 runs from 2,131 feet to 5,926 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit 32 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

  • 2,558–5,237 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 3,393 ft ; peaks can run higher.
  • 1,437.3 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.

Who owns the ground

  • National Forest — 60%
  • State Trust — 8%
  • Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

  • 285 tanks
  • 533 stream segments
  • 49 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Sehewoki’i Newenee’an Katete (5,873 ft), Fletcher Butte (5,758 ft), Willow Ridge (5,270 ft), Crown Point (5,149 ft)

Holding ground: Dry Buck Summit (5,926 ft), Ola Summit (4,927 ft), Dry Buck Valley (4,358 ft), Cherry Spring, Denton Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 32 at 31% — 863 animals taken by 2,827 hunters. That is a lot of hunters in one unit, and the percentage is what it looks like after all of them have been through it. The figure is IDFG's result for deer in the unit, not for mule deer alone.

These are the agency's own printed figures for this unit, not a modelled estimate and not a state average. They describe one season, so check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you read a trend into them.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

SeasonTagsApplicantsDraw %Pts (n/p)
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident) 391,2683.0% —
Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) 1502.0% —
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (resident) 22131.0% —
Controlled — 2nd Drawing either sex (nonresident) 0100.0% —

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

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Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 first drawing for mule deer in unit 32, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:

  • Hunt 1023 — residents 1,268 applicants for 39 tags, 3% drawn; nonresidents 50 applicants for 1 tag, 2% drawn

Idaho draws at random with no point system, so these are what that year happened to look like, not a requirement to build toward. Idaho Fish and Game reuses hunt numbers for different areas between years, so the figures are matched on the area each hunt had in 2025. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho unit 32?
Unit 32 lies in Ada, Adams, Boise, Gem and Payette counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 32 on a line that runs along State Highway 55, State Highway 16, State Highway 52 and U.S. 95, and past Payette River, Snake River and Sheep Creek, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It covers about 1,437 square miles.
What is the mule deer success rate in unit 32?
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put deer success in unit 32 at 31% across all manners of take. Those are the agency's own figures for this unit, not a statewide average.
Where do you stay and resupply for a unit 32 hunt?
The nearest services our logistics pipeline finds for unit 32 are at New Plymouth, about 19 miles from the unit's centre, with Emmett at about 20 miles. There are also 1 developed campgrounds in or beside the unit.
What is the black bear success rate in unit 32?
Idaho Fish and Game publishes no black bear success figure we can tie to unit 32 on its own — the 2025 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Idaho Fish and Game's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

  1. Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Game management unit boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, Controlled hunt numbers, tags and season dates · accessed 2026-10-24
  2. IDFG general deer season page for unit 32 — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Season structure for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
  3. IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for deer in unit 32 · accessed 2026-10-19
  4. IDFG Hunt Planner — controlled hunt drawing odds — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Applicants, tags and percent drawn by hunt, year and residency · accessed 2026-06-09
  5. IDFG GameManagementUnits and ControlledHunts_All feature services — game management units and every species' controlled-hunt areas — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Mapped extent of the unit or hunt area, Which named ground falls inside its line · accessed 2026-10-24