Unit 11A
Elk
Resident licenses
Palouse Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Muzzleloader only — Unit 8A only: spike or antlerless: Dec 2-Dec 5, spike only: Dec 6-Dec 14.
Archery only — any elk Aug 30-Sep 30.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Palouse Zone general elk tag (units 8, 8A, 11A).
Nonresident general-season elk tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 12,815 elk tags.
Palouse Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 109 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 14 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: 182 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 22 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
Price: $651.75 nonresident elk tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Elk Tags by Zone" and "Elk Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Zone".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
6+ point bulls: 19 of 74 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 320 | 91 | 28.4% | 16 | 5% | 58 | 18.1% | 19 | 5.9% |
| 2024 | 285 | 62 | 21.8% | 3 | 1.1% | 47 | 16.5% | 30 | 10.5% |
| 2023 | 259 | 46 | 17.8% | 11 | 4.2% | 24 | 9.3% | 8 | 3.1% |
| 2022 | 211 | 47 | 22.3% | 10 | 4.7% | 29 | 13.7% | 17 | 8.1% |
| 2021 | 242 | 62 | 25.6% | 6 | 2.5% | 42 | 17.4% | 27 | 11.2% |
| 2020 | 228 | 58 | 25.4% | 0 | 0% | 40 | 17.5% | 17 | 7.5% |
| 2019 | 204 | 66 | 32.4% | 2 | 1% | 50 | 24.5% | 28 | 13.7% |
| 2018 | 229 | 49 | 21.4% | 5 | 2.2% | 36 | 15.7% | 19 | 8.3% |
| 2017 | 261 | 40 | 15.3% | 1 | 0.4% | 26 | 10% | 18 | 6.9% |
| 2016 | 261 | 29 | 11.1% | 10 | 3.8% | 9 | 3.4% | 3 | 1.1% |
| 2015 | 221 | 38 | 17.2% | 0 | 0% | 31 | 14% | 12 | 5.4% |
| 2014 | 331 | 81 | 24.5% | 0 | 0% | 37 | 11.2% | 0 | 0% |
| 2013 | 294 | 70 | 23.8% | 9 | 3.1% | 29 | 9.9% | 17 | 5.8% |
| 2012 | 331 | 87 | 26.3% | 10 | 3% | 46 | 13.9% | 20 | 6% |
| 2011 | 372 | 59 | 15.9% | 4 | 1.1% | 49 | 13.2% | 14 | 3.8% |
| 2010 | 334 | 53 | 15.9% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 367 | 64 | 17.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 43 | 11.7% | 26 | 7.1% |
| 2008 | 435 | 68 | 15.6% | 1 | 0.2% | 50 | 11.5% | 19 | 4.4% |
| 2007 | 429 | 138 | 32.2% | 10 | 2.3% | 89 | 20.7% | 39 | 9.1% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Controlled Hunt
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
Not listed in the 2026 Regular Deer Tag general-season table — controlled-hunt-only for deer in this unit.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
⚠️ No general season data for this species in this unit — see the regulation notes below for details.
No nonresident general-season Regular Deer tag is listed for this unit in the 2026 nonresident tag tables — controlled-hunt-only for nonresidents here, and nonresidents drawn for a controlled hunt are not counted against the nonresident quota.
IDFG does not publish a per-unit nonresident cap for this unit.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Idaho's Regular Deer Tag harvest and success-rate figures below combine the mule and white-tailed deer populations into one number — IDFG doesn't publish a single-species breakdown at the unit level.
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 858 | 285 | 33.2% | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 1090 | 476 | 43.7% | 396 | 36.3% | 150 | 13.8% |
| 2023 | 1185 | 463 | 39.1% | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1224 | 459 | 37.5% | 364 | 29.7% | 364 | 29.7% |
| 2021 | 1378 | 416 | 30.2% | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 2318 | 1282 | 55.3% | 1003 | 43.3% | 662 | 28.6% |
| 2019 | 2346 | 1121 | 47.8% | 864 | 36.8% | 639 | 27.2% |
| 2018 | 2332 | 1187 | 50.9% | 911 | 39.1% | 911 | 39.1% |
| 2017 | 2252 | 1127 | 50% | 837 | 37.2% | 837 | 37.2% |
| 2016 | 2430 | 1121 | 46.1% | 864 | 35.6% | 743 | 30.6% |
| 2015 | 2651 | 1285 | 48.5% | 923 | 34.8% | 570 | 21.5% |
| 2014 | 3047 | 1494 | 49% | 1179 | 38.7% | 739 | 24.3% |
| 2013 | 2858 | 1309 | 45.8% | 1031 | 36.1% | 700 | 24.5% |
| 2012 | 2747 | 1401 | 51% | 1041 | 37.9% | 775 | 28.2% |
| 2011 | 2535 | 1126 | 44.4% | 868 | 34.2% | 608 | 24% |
| 2010 | 2433 | 1092 | 44.9% | 802 | 33% | 570 | 23.4% |
| 2009 | 2622 | 1180 | 45% | 898 | 34.2% | 612 | 23.3% |
| 2008 | 2785 | 1205 | 43.3% | 949 | 34.1% | 680 | 24.4% |
| 2007 | 2187 | 959 | 43.9% | 749 | 34.2% | 535 | 24.5% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.