Unit 68
Elk
Resident licenses
Big Desert Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Archery only — any elk (Units 52A, 68); Short range weapons only — any elk (Unit 53); Archery only — any elk (Unit 68A).
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Big Desert Zone general elk tag (units 52A, 53, 68, 68A).
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.
Big Desert Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 57 nonresident tags (uncapped zone; 0 additional tags allocated to outfitters), archery-only and short-range-weapon-only seasons.
B Tag: 3 nonresident tags (capped zone — 350 total capped tags, of which 347 are resident tags and 0 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: 12 of 36 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 448 | 122 | 27.2% | 12 | 2.7% | 24 | 5.4% | 12 | 2.7% |
| 2024 | 322 | 125 | 38.8% | 6 | 1.9% | 34 | 10.6% | 19 | 5.9% |
| 2023 | 284 | 102 | 35.9% | 7 | 2.5% | 41 | 14.4% | 24 | 8.5% |
| 2022 | 363 | 122 | 33.6% | 1 | 0.3% | 23 | 6.3% | 14 | 3.9% |
| 2021 | 356 | 78 | 21.9% | 2 | 0.6% | 25 | 7% | 12 | 3.4% |
| 2020 | 108 | 33 | 30.6% | 6 | 5.6% | 24 | 22.2% | 13 | 12% |
| 2019 | 84 | 19 | 22.6% | 4 | 4.8% | 13 | 15.5% | 8 | 9.5% |
| 2018 | 89 | 16 | 18% | 0 | 0% | 11 | 12.4% | 5 | 5.6% |
| 2017 | 82 | 18 | 22% | 1 | 1.2% | 14 | 17.1% | 11 | 13.4% |
| 2016 | 101 | 17 | 16.8% | 3 | 3% | 14 | 13.9% | 8 | 7.9% |
| 2015 | 85 | 17 | 20% | 0 | 0% | 13 | 15.3% | 13 | 15.3% |
| 2014 | 61 | 16 | 26.2% | 1 | 1.6% | 11 | 18% | 5 | 8.2% |
| 2013 | 90 | 11 | 12.2% | 1 | 1.1% | 7 | 7.8% | 5 | 5.6% |
| 2012 | 46 | 7 | 15.2% | 4 | 8.7% | 3 | 6.5% | 2 | 4.3% |
| 2011 | 52 | 8 | 15.4% | 0 | 0% | 7 | 13.5% | 6 | 11.5% |
| 2010 | 78 | 7 | 9% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | 3 | 11.5% | 0 | 0% | 3 | 11.5% | 1 | 3.8% |
| 2008 | 35 | 6 | 17.1% | 0 | 0% | 4 | 11.4% | 3 | 8.6% |
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: None.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 68 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD68.
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 68 nonresident limit: 55 tags, plus 0 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): 50 of 148 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 769 | 148 | 19.2% | 148 | 19.2% | 50 | 6.5% |
| 2024 | 686 | 168 | 24.5% | 168 | 24.5% | 72 | 10.5% |
| 2023 | 554 | 77 | 13.9% | 77 | 13.9% | 24 | 4.3% |
| 2022 | 549 | 77 | 14% | 76 | 13.8% | 38 | 6.9% |
| 2021 | 564 | 88 | 15.6% | 88 | 15.6% | 40 | 7.1% |
| 2020 | 646 | 152 | 23.5% | 133 | 20.6% | 48 | 7.4% |
| 2019 | 533 | 108 | 20.3% | 101 | 18.9% | 42 | 7.9% |
| 2018 | 594 | 87 | 14.6% | 82 | 13.8% | 14 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 677 | 119 | 17.6% | 115 | 17% | 61 | 9% |
| 2016 | 493 | 136 | 27.6% | 112 | 22.7% | 45 | 9.1% |
| 2015 | 654 | 94 | 14.4% | 75 | 11.5% | 19 | 2.9% |
| 2014 | 752 | 122 | 16.2% | 93 | 12.4% | 31 | 4.1% |
| 2013 | 626 | 162 | 25.9% | 123 | 19.6% | 38 | 6.1% |
| 2012 | 436 | 113 | 25.9% | 91 | 20.9% | 33 | 7.6% |
| 2011 | 650 | 99 | 15.2% | 79 | 12.2% | 21 | 3.2% |
| 2010 | 500 | 98 | 19.6% | 76 | 15.2% | 20 | 4% |
| 2009 | 554 | 77 | 13.9% | 67 | 12.1% | 21 | 3.8% |
| 2008 | 683 | 121 | 17.7% | 121 | 17.7% | 57 | 8.3% |
| 2007 | 441 | 102 | 23.1% | 100 | 22.7% | 51 | 11.6% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.