The Owyhee Zone makes up the southwest corner of Idaho and borders Nevada and Oregon. All elk hunting is conducted through the use of controlled hunt permits here. Because of limited hunting pressure bulls tend to grow to large sizes and anyone who draws a tag will be in for a good hunt. The terrain is very open throughout the area and glassing with the best option for locating herds.
This area is made up of flat and hilly desert terrain cut with ravines, washes and rugged canyons. A lot of the land is dry and brown in the fall except for the irrigated fields in the north, the hills and marshes in the reservation, the northern and eastern sides of mesas or tables and the greenery along waterways such as Bruneau River, Owyhee River, the Snake River, and Sheep Creek.
Hunters have good access to public land in this unit on a network of gravel and dirt roads. Motor vehicles are not allowed in wilderness areas or in some remote sections outside the wilderness. Most private land is in the north near the Snake River and CJ Strike Reservoir. Physically traversing the terrain will be easy and straight forward to most. Optics can save a lot of walking.