California hunting units

Unit A (North Unit 160)

Zone A (North Unit 160)

Early-season Columbian blacktail across the inner North Coast Ranges

Unit A (South Unit 110)

Zone A (South Unit 110)

Early-season blacktail in the oak-and-chaparral Diablo and Santa Lucia country

Unit B1

Zone B1

Big timbered blacktail country across the largest of the B zones

Unit B2

Zone B2

California's biggest B zone — Trinity Alps high country, the Trinity Divide and the timbered Klamath ranges, the state's top blacktail harvest.

Unit B3

Zone B3

Snow Mountain and the interior Mendocino ranges — extensive, well-roaded public blacktail country between the Sacramento Valley and the Eel River.

Unit B4

Zone B4

The Lost Coast blacktail zone — steep King Range wilderness rising straight from the Pacific, mostly private with a few hard-won BLM tracts.

Unit B5

Zone B5

Big, brushy blacktail country where the Coast Range meets the Klamath foothills

Unit B6

Zone B6

High, wild blacktail country in the heart of the Klamath Knot

Unit C1

Zone C1

Where coastal blacktail meets high-desert mule deer under Mount Shasta

Unit C2

Zone C2

Resident Cascade blacktail in the timbered wedge between Mount Shasta, Shasta Lake and the Pit River

Unit C3

Zone C3

East-to-west migratory Cascade blacktail on the burns and brush ridges east of Redding

Unit C4

Zone C4

Home of California's largest migratory blacktail herd, from Lake Almanor to the oak foothills of Tehama

Unit D3

Zone D3

Sprawling northern-Sierra general zone where migratory deer summer high on the crest and pour down the Feather River country with the first storms.

Unit D4

Zone D4

A compact west-slope zone from the Auburn foothills up to the Granite Chief crest, where migratory deer funnel down onto private ground with the storms.

Unit D5

Zone D5

Big central-Sierra general zone from the Mother Lode foothills to the Carson-Iceberg and Mokelumne wilderness crest, driven by the fall deer migration.

Unit D6

Zone D6

Big migratory mule deer country straddling the Yosemite high country and the western foothills.

Unit D7

Zone D7

Kings and San Joaquin high country mule deer above the Fresno foothills.

Unit D8

Zone D8

Rugged southern-Sierra mule deer between the Kings and Kern drainages.

Unit D9

Zone D9

General-tag mule deer in the steep, brushy foothills and forests of central Kern County

Unit D10

Zone D10

A private-land deer zone straddling the Tehachapis, where access is everything

Unit D11

Zone D11

Big public timber and wilderness ridges in L.A.'s backyard range

Unit D12

Zone D12

Vast BLM desert where a few burro mule deer live tied to water and washes

Unit D13

Zone D13

Resident California mule deer in the high chaparral and pine country of the Los Padres backcountry

Unit D14

Zone D14

Mostly-public mule deer country from high desert scrub to the highest peaks in Southern California

Unit D15

Zone D15

Southern mule deer scattered through the chaparral ranges of the far southwest corner

Unit D16

Zone D16

Chaparral and oak-woodland backcountry for resident southern mule deer, an easy general-tag drive from San Diego.

Unit D17

Zone D17

A vast, wide-open Mojave zone where a scattering of desert mule deer live tied to a handful of springs and high desert ranges.

Unit D19

Zone D19

Steep San Bernardino National Forest peaks and the Santa Rosa desert front, close to millions of hunters yet full of vertical, brushy deer country.

Unit X1

Zone X1

Premium limited-draw mule deer across the sage, timber, and lava country of the far northeast

Unit X2

Zone X2

Devil's Garden sage-and-rimrock country fed by the Oregon deer migration

Unit X3a

Zone X3a

Big brushy plateau and timbered mountain country south of Alturas

Unit X3b

Zone X3b

A premium limited-draw mule deer zone spanning the Warner Mountains, Devils Garden juniper flats and the high sage of far northeast California.

Unit X4

Zone X4

A big premium X-zone straddling the Cascade-Modoc transition, from Eagle Lake mule deer country to the blacktail rims of Hat Creek.

Unit X5a

Zone X5a

A small, high-success BLM sage-and-juniper mule deer zone between Eagle Lake and the Honey Lake basin east of Susanville.

Unit X5b

Zone X5b

Premium limited-draw mule deer in the open sage-and-juniper high desert east of Eagle Lake

Unit X6a

Zone X6a

Premium limited-draw mule deer of the famed Doyle herd, from Honey Lake sage to the Diamond Mountains crest

Unit X6b

Zone X6b

Premium limited-draw mule deer in the timbered high country around Sierra Valley, Portola, and Loyalton

Unit X7a

Zone X7a

Premium draw-only mule deer country from Truckee north to Hallelujah Junction.

Unit X7b

Zone X7b

Compact draw-only zone wrapping the Truckee reservoirs and the north shore of Lake Tahoe.

Unit X8

Zone X8

Mostly-public draw-only mule deer country along the Sierra crest above Markleeville.

Unit X9a

Zone X9a

California's premier limited-draw mule deer zone — the migratory Round Valley herd on the Sierra's eastern front

Unit X9b

Zone X9b

Steep, limited-draw mule deer country — the Goodale herd on the eastern wall of the Sierra

Unit X9c

Zone X9c

California's largest deer zone — remote, high-desert mule deer of the White and Inyo Mountains

Unit X10

Zone X10

Backcountry limited-draw mule deer in the high, wild country above the Kern River

Unit X12

Zone X12

California's crown-jewel migratory mule deer draw along the 395 corridor