Unit B1-1 (Black Bear Hunt Area 1-1)

Idaho Hunting Guide — Bear

Hunt Area 1-1 is drawn from unit 1, in Bonner and Boundary counties. Named ground inside it runs from 1,964 to 6,662 feet. Idaho Fish and Game publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this hunt area. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Bear Hunting in Unit B1-1

Where to Find Black Bear in Hunt Area 1-1

What Idaho Fish and Game publishes for hunt area 1-1 is a boundary, not a black bear map. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's.

What hunt area 1-1 is

Idaho Fish and Game draws black bear hunt area 1-1 in Bonner and Boundary counties on a line that runs along State Highway 1 and State Highway 95, and past Pend Oreille River, Lamb Creek, Priest Lake and Soldier Creek, written out corner by corner in its controlled hunt area descriptions. That makes it a piece of ground drawn for this hunt, not a unit, and the outline on this page is IDFG's own polygon for it rather than a unit outline. The units it is drawn from lie in Bonner and Boundary counties. Idaho Fish and Game also uses the code 1-1 for deer, elk and moose hunts, and in its own words "hunt areas are different for each species" — those are other pieces of ground, and this page is the black bear area.

High ground inside the line: Mount Casey, Keokee Mountain and Atlasta Mountain

Named high points inside the hunt area include Mount Casey at 6,662 feet, Keokee Mountain at 6,425 feet, Atlasta Mountain at 6,358 feet, Sundance Mountain at 6,265 feet and Lost Peak at 6,249 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears on dry country work the drainages with fruit in them and little else.

Holding ground: Big Meadows, Gleason Meadow and Daggett Meadow

Below them sit Big Meadows at 2,503 feet, Gleason Meadow at 2,469 feet, Daggett Meadow at 2,437 feet, Snow Valley at 2,392 feet and Bodie Canyon at 2,238 feet. That is the low country of the hunt area — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Benton Spring, Leslie Springs and Torrelle Falls

Named sources include Benton Spring, Leslie Springs and Torrelle Falls. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

How high the named ground goes

Named ground inside hunt area 1-1 runs from 1,964 feet to 6,662 feet — more than 4,000 feet between the named features alone, so the season you draw decides which part of it you hunt.

Unit B1-1 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Mount Casey (6,662 ft), Sundance Mountain (6,265 ft), Lost Peak (6,249 ft), Queen Mountain (6,103 ft)

Holding ground: Canyon Gap (3,706 ft), Bath Creek Gorge (2,846 ft), Jack Pine Flats (2,557 ft), Benton Spring, Leslie Springs

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 Black Bear in Hunt Area 1-1

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics describe general seasons on game management units, so there is no black bear success figure we can tie to hunt area 1-1 alone, and we won't borrow one from a unit. The plan: find the berry crop first, then glass it morning and evening until something is in it.

Glassing from Camels Prairie, Gisborne Mountain and Tungsten Mountain

Take a position on one of Camels Prairie (5,872 ft), Gisborne Mountain (5,687 ft), Tungsten Mountain (5,678 ft) and Selkirk Mountains (5,324 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, September hunts coincide with the feeding push before denning.

The way in: Highway 1 and Highway 95

We have no road inventory for this hunt area, so the only routes we can name are the ones Idaho Fish and Game draws the boundary with: Highway 1 and Highway 95. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Casey, Sundance Mountain, Lost Peak and Queen Mountain as places to see from, and Canyon Gap, Bath Creek Gorge, Jack Pine Flats and Benton Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the hunt-area line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

With 4,698 feet between the lowest and highest ground, the walk back up out of a kill site is the part to plan first. Decide the night before where you will be at first light, and go there in the dark.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no black bear success figure for this hunt area that survives checking against Idaho Fish and Game's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Idaho rules that decide your day

Summarised from IDFG regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Idaho has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground; stay on designated routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag by cutting out the month and day, and attach it to the carcass before moving it.

Leaving meat

Wasting edible meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public highway, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Bear: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Bear Success Rates

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics describe general seasons on game management units, and hunt area 1-1 is a controlled-hunt area, not a unit, so there is no figure here we can tie to it. A unit's general-season number would describe different hunters on different ground. Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner reports controlled-hunt results hunt by hunt, which is the figure to check before you apply.

Bear Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Idaho Fish and Game's draw results for 2022 to 2026 carry no first-drawing black bear hunt we can tie to hunt area 1-1 — black bear draws are not in the results we hold. Rather than estimate, we leave it blank: Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner lists drawing odds hunt by hunt.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Water

4 named water sources inside the hunt area in our water layer, including Benton Spring, Leslie Springs and Torrelle Falls. Which of them run in autumn is something only a scouting trip will tell you.

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Road Conditions

Idaho Fish and Game's boundary for the hunt area follows State Highway 1 and State Highway 95. That is the edge, not a promise of access inside — check a current motor-vehicle-use map before you drive in.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 1,964 to 6,662 ft. More than 4,000 feet between them alone, so plan the pack-out before the shot.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Idaho hunt area 1-1?

Hunt Area 1-1 is drawn from unit 1, in Bonner and Boundary counties. Idaho Fish and Game draws black bear hunt area 1-1 on a line that runs along State Highway 1 and State Highway 95, and past Pend Oreille River, Lamb Creek, Priest Lake and Soldier Creek, written out corner by corner in its controlled hunt area descriptions.

What is the black bear success rate in hunt area 1-1?

Idaho Fish and Game's per-unit harvest statistics cover general seasons on game management units, and hunt area 1-1 is a controlled-hunt area, so there is no figure we can tie to it. Idaho Fish and Game's hunt planner reports controlled-hunt results hunt by hunt, and that is the number to check 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.

Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules — Idaho Department of Fish and Game · supports: Controlled hunt area description for black bear hunt area 1-1, The game management units the area is drawn from · accessed 2026-10-24
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