Unit 75 (Bear River Zone)
Idaho Hunting Guide — Moose
Unit 75 lies in Bear Lake, Caribou and Franklin counties and covers about 378 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,041 to 9,675 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 39% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Moose Hunting in Unit 75
Unit 75 lies in Bear Lake, Caribou and Franklin counties and covers about 378 square miles. Named ground inside it runs from 5,041 to 9,675 feet. Idaho Fish and Game's harvest estimates put Shiras moose success here as high as 100%. Federal land covers about 39% of it. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Shiras Moose in Unit 75
What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for unit 75 is a boundary, not a Shiras moose 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 Bear Lake, Caribou and Franklin counties. It runs to about 378 square miles.
How Idaho Fish and Game sets up Shiras moose hunting in unit 75
Idaho Fish and Game hunts Shiras moose here only by controlled hunt, and describes its moose hunt area 75 as all of Unit 75.
The lines of the unit: Maple Grove Hot Springs, Hot Springs-Strawberry Canyon and Strawberry Canyon-Emigration Canyon
Idaho Fish and Game draws unit 75 in Bear Lake, Caribou and Franklin counties on a line that runs along U.S. 30, State Highway 34 and U.S. 89, and past Maple Grove Hot Springs, Hot Springs-Strawberry Canyon and Strawberry Canyon-Emigration Canyon, written out corner by corner in its unit boundary descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Sherman Peak, Soda Peak and Red Pine Ridge
Named high points inside the unit include Sherman Peak at 9,675 feet, Soda Peak at 8,906 feet, Red Pine Ridge at 8,483 feet, South Hill at 7,137 feet and Poulsen Ridge at 6,723 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Moose want willow, water and shade, and they rarely leave the drainage that has all three.
Holding ground: Grunder Hollow, Deep Hollow and South Fork North Canyon
Below them sit Grunder Hollow at 7,557 feet, Deep Hollow at 7,469 feet, South Fork North Canyon at 7,396 feet, Cheatbeck Basin at 7,388 feet and Mercham Hollow at 7,240 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: King Canyon Spring, Bear Wallow Spring and Main Canyon Spring
The water inside the unit line comes to 68 mapped stream reaches, 8 lakes, 8 stock tanks and 5 springs. Named sources include King Canyon Spring, Bear Wallow Spring, Main Canyon Spring, Balsam Spring, Humberg Spring and Williams Creek Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
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 75 runs from 5,041 feet to 9,675 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.
Unit 75 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 5,797–7,855 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,484 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 377.8 sq mi inside the boundary.
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
- 8 tanks
- 5 springs
- 68 stream segments
- 8 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: Sherman Peak (9,675 ft), Soda Peak (8,906 ft), Red Pine Ridge (8,483 ft), North Hill (6,710 ft)
Holding ground: South Ant Basin (8,294 ft), Moonlight Meadow (7,851 ft), South Cheatbeck Basin (7,585 ft), King Canyon Spring, Bear Wallow Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Shiras Moose in Unit 75
Moose Success Rates
Idaho Fish and Game's 2025 harvest estimates put Shiras moose success in unit 75 at 100% — 5 animals taken by 5 hunters. On a sample that small the percentage moves several points with one animal, so read the hunter count beside it.
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.
Moose Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts (n/p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (resident) | 4 | 39 | 10.0% | — |
| Controlled — 1st Drawing either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 24 | 4.0% | — |
Data from 2026 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.
Open in Draw Odds EngineIdaho Fish and Game's 2026 first drawing for Shiras moose in unit 75, with residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different tag pools:
- Hunt 3086 — residents 39 applicants for 4 tags, 10% drawn; nonresidents 24 applicants for 1 tag, 4% 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 2026. Checked against Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner draw results on 2026-06-09.
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- 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
- Moose, Bighorn Sheep & Mountain Goat 2025 & 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Controlled hunt application periods and eligibility rules · accessed 2026-10-24
- IDFG Hunt Planner — 2025 general hunt harvest statistics — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Harvest, hunters and percent success for Shiras moose in unit 75 · accessed 2026-10-19
- 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
- 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