Unit 36B
Elk
Resident licenses
Salmon Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk (Units 21, 21A, 36B and separately Unit 28).
B Tag: Any weapon — antlered only Oct 15-Nov 8.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Salmon Zone general elk tag (units 21, 21A, 28, 36B).
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.
Salmon Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 54 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 44 additional tags allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: 627 nonresident tags (capped zone — 2,507 total capped tags, of which 1,792 are resident tags and 88 are 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: 35 of 153 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 677 | 161 | 23.8% | 43 | 6.4% | 110 | 16.2% | 35 | 5.2% |
| 2024 | 708 | 146 | 20.6% | 44 | 6.2% | 98 | 13.8% | 24 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 620 | 133 | 21.5% | 40 | 6.5% | 93 | 15% | 12 | 1.9% |
| 2022 | 791 | 148 | 18.7% | 66 | 8.3% | 64 | 8.1% | 20 | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 708 | 136 | 19.2% | 51 | 7.2% | 63 | 8.9% | 10 | 1.4% |
| 2020 | 872 | 126 | 14.4% | 24 | 2.8% | 74 | 8.5% | 24 | 2.8% |
| 2019 | 865 | 204 | 23.6% | 68 | 7.9% | 97 | 11.2% | 28 | 3.2% |
| 2018 | 826 | 113 | 13.7% | 15 | 1.8% | 82 | 9.9% | 37 | 4.5% |
| 2017 | 826 | 178 | 21.5% | 44 | 5.3% | 93 | 11.3% | 53 | 6.4% |
| 2016 | 816 | 175 | 21.4% | 44 | 5.4% | 109 | 13.4% | 32 | 3.9% |
| 2015 | 705 | 175 | 24.8% | 58 | 8.2% | 75 | 10.6% | 24 | 3.4% |
| 2014 | 732 | 178 | 24.3% | 36 | 4.9% | 88 | 12% | 48 | 6.6% |
| 2013 | 575 | 103 | 17.9% | 49 | 8.5% | 51 | 8.9% | 20 | 3.5% |
| 2012 | 605 | 113 | 18.7% | 33 | 5.5% | 78 | 12.9% | 12 | 2% |
| 2011 | 590 | 133 | 22.5% | 48 | 8.1% | 84 | 14.2% | 21 | 3.6% |
| 2010 | 675 | 106 | 15.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 583 | 105 | 18% | 40 | 6.9% | 52 | 8.9% | 14 | 2.4% |
| 2008 | 717 | 78 | 10.9% | 21 | 2.9% | 51 | 7.1% | 22 | 3.1% |
| 2007 | 753 | 134 | 17.8% | 24 | 3.2% | 65 | 8.6% | 14 | 1.9% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Antlered: Oct 10 - Oct 24.
Antlerless: Oct 10 - Oct 31 (Youth hunt only on Private land only).
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 36B Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD36B.
Nonresident general-season deer 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 15,500 deer tags.
Unit 36B nonresident limit: 166 tags, plus 15 tags allocated to outfitters.
Price: $351.75 nonresident deer 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 Regular Deer Tags by Unit" and "Regular Deer Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by 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.
4+ point deer (all deer): 153 of 383 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 1203 | 383 | 31.8% | 383 | 31.8% | 153 | 12.7% |
| 2024 | 1086 | 475 | 43.7% | 458 | 42.2% | 192 | 17.7% |
| 2023 | 1067 | 122 | 11.4% | 115 | 10.8% | 22 | 2.1% |
| 2022 | 1252 | 278 | 22.2% | 264 | 21.1% | 87 | 6.9% |
| 2021 | 1140 | 508 | 44.6% | 495 | 43.4% | 173 | 15.2% |
| 2020 | 1574 | 470 | 29.9% | 444 | 28.2% | 129 | 8.2% |
| 2019 | 1322 | 491 | 37.1% | 470 | 35.6% | 202 | 15.3% |
| 2018 | 1252 | 262 | 20.9% | 254 | 20.3% | 119 | 9.5% |
| 2017 | 1523 | 314 | 20.6% | 306 | 20.1% | 162 | 10.6% |
| 2016 | 1428 | 777 | 54.4% | 764 | 53.5% | 367 | 25.7% |
| 2015 | 1251 | 492 | 39.3% | 448 | 35.8% | 126 | 10.1% |
| 2014 | 1192 | 393 | 33% | 364 | 30.5% | 153 | 12.8% |
| 2013 | 976 | 415 | 42.5% | 393 | 40.3% | 157 | 16.1% |
| 2012 | 822 | 327 | 39.8% | 306 | 37.2% | 101 | 12.3% |
| 2011 | 800 | 302 | 37.8% | 289 | 36.1% | 77 | 9.6% |
| 2010 | 829 | 227 | 27.4% | 202 | 24.4% | 40 | 4.8% |
| 2009 | 820 | 260 | 31.7% | 248 | 30.2% | 77 | 9.4% |
| 2008 | 984 | 307 | 31.2% | 307 | 31.2% | 114 | 11.6% |
| 2007 | 1080 | 422 | 39.1% | 405 | 37.5% | 142 | 13.1% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.