I drew that units archery tag and hunted it for 2 weeks last year. I started around the 19th of September. All of our elk encounters were within a few hundred yards of private property on the border of the national forest. I have hunted this unit off and on since the 90s and I can say that it was the fewest elk i had ever seen. I spoke with several other hunters who were packing into the back country for days that hadn't even seen elk sign. I even spoke with the area biologist and he confirmed that most of the elk in that unit stay in very close proximity to the private property boundaries.
