Unit 611 Kamas

A general-season buck unit managed for opportunity. Deer are well distributed through the aspen and timber edges of the western Uintas and the foothill sage, but the dense cover and Wasatch Front crowds keep success modest — hunt hard, hunt the cover, and expect a working-man's buck.

• →Work the aspen-conifer edges and small parks at first and last light
• →Push into the timbered pockets between the road-accessed drainages off the Mirror Lake Highway
• →Glass the sage and West Hills foothills early season and low
• →Follow deer down off the high country as early snow arrives

General-season elk are found almost anywhere in the unit — the west end of the Uintas, Kamas Valley and West Hills — but success is typically low because of densely timbered mountains and canyons and lots of hunters. A hunter who penetrates the black timber can still find bulls.

• →Get into the dark timber and roadless benches where elk escape pressure
• →Cover country to locate herds early, then work timber edges at dawn
• →Bugle and cow-call sparingly during the archery rut near wallows and travel corridors
• →Hunt north slopes and shaded conifer during warm early spells

Shiras moose use the willow bottoms and beaver-pond complexes of the Provo River drainage and the western Uinta riparian corridors. Permits are limited-entry and few, but the unit holds good bulls.

• →Hunt the willow flats and beaver ponds along the upper Provo and Beaver Creek at dawn and dusk
• →Glass riparian aspen edges near water
• →Move slowly through willow corridors — moose stay tight to cover

The high alpine crest at the unit's east edge — the Bald Mountain and Mirror Lake basins on the western shoulder of the Uintas mountain-goat range — holds mountain goats on the cliffs and talus above timberline. A coveted limited-entry alpine hunt.

• →Glass the cliff bands, talus and alpine ledges around Bald Mountain and the high basins
• →Backpack or use pack stock to reach and stay in goat country
• →Spend days behind glass locating billies before committing to steep terrain
• →Hunt the escape-terrain edges early and late when goats feed off the crags

Black bears range the aspen, timber and berry slopes of the western Uintas. A viable spot-and-stalk or general opportunity while deer and elk hunting.

• →Glass aspen and berry-producing slopes in early fall
• →Check creek bottoms and mast-heavy pockets at dawn and dusk
• →Focus on feeding sign in the mid-elevation timber

Mountain lions follow the deer herds through the canyons and timber of the western Uintas. A pursuit hunt best on fresh tracking snow.

• →Cut fresh tracks on Forest Service roads after snow
• →Focus on steep canyon breaks and deer-wintering ground
• →Work the timbered ridge systems above Kamas Valley