Can a hunter get a licence for hunt area 100 if the draw does not come through?

No. Hunt area 100 is limited quota, drawn specifically for this area by both residents and nonresidents. Wyoming issues no general pronghorn licence that can be bought over the counter and no regional licence that applies to hunt areas that miss the draw. If a hunter is not drawn for hunt area 100, there is no alternative licence to hunt pronghorn here.

Do Wyoming residents need preference points for pronghorn in hunt area 100?

No. Wyoming residents do not use preference points for any pronghorn hunt. The resident pronghorn draw for hunt area 100 is random, and no resident point cutoff exists for this or any other pronghorn hunt area in the state. Nonresidents, by contrast, must compete in a preference-point draw where three quarters of the licences go to the highest point holders and a quarter are awarded by random draw.

How much of hunt area 100 can a hunter actually access for pronghorn?

About 56% of the area is public land—BLM and state trust land—that a hunter can generally count on. The northern third sits more openly on BLM. In the southern two-thirds, private land checkerboards with public parcels, and many public parcels are landlocked by private ranches. Some private landowners have enrolled in access programs (Walk-In Areas and a Hunter Management Area), but enrollment is renegotiated annually and is not guaranteed, so hunters should check the hunt planner map before planning a trip.

When do the pronghorn seasons run on hunt area 100?

Archery runs August 15 through September 9, and the regular season runs September 10 through October 31. Type 1 licences allow any antelope, while Type 6 licences are limited to does or fawns. Both season types span the same dates.

What private-land access programmes are available on hunt area 100?

Two Walk-In Areas—Lincoln County Walk In Area 6 and Uinta County Walk In Area 11—allow hunters to walk onto enrolled private land during posted open periods without needing permission slips. A Hunter Management Area called Bear River Divide also offers access to private land, but hunters must obtain a printed permission slip from the landowner before hunting there. Enrollment in all three programmes is renegotiated annually.

Wyoming Hunt Area 100 (Bear River Divide) pronghorn hunting

Licence

Limited quota — drawn

Open public land

56%

Elevation

6,200–8,600 ft

Terrain

Gentle

Hunt area 100 is a sprawling expanse of sagebrush flats, low broken hills and open plains across the Bear River Divide country, between 6,200 and 8,600 feet elevation. Scattered within this terrain are patches of juniper, aspen and serviceberry on ridges and higher slopes, but pronghorn concentrate in the open sagebrush habitat that dominates the lower ground. The country is predominantly gentle, running about 6 degrees of slope on average and offering mostly easy foot access to its sagebrush core. That core is where a hunter should look—the broken hills and forested slopes hold few animals. About 470 square miles of public land lies within the area's 842 square miles, made up of BLM holdings and state trust land, though private ownership checkerboards much of the southern two-thirds and complicates access there.

Getting into public ground in the southern half presents real friction. While public BLM parcels are interspersed with private land in a checkerboard pattern, many lie landlocked by surrounding ranches, and permission to cross private ground is required even to reach them. Some private landowners have enrolled in access-agreement programs, making portions of their land available to hunters, but enrollment shifts annually and public roads that appear on maps may be private roads built by industry and closed to general use. The northern third of the hunt area sits more openly on BLM, with better road access and fewer barriers to foot travel. Where private land and access are less complicated, hunters can move more freely through the sagebrush; where checkerboard ownership dominates, planning and asking permission become essential. Fall hunting pressure can be concentrated, and moving late into October distributes impact better across this large country.

Seasonal conditions shift markedly across the fall hunt. August archery hunting begins in warm weather with highs near 78 degrees and minimal snow, when pronghorn are establishing territories and rut activity is beginning. September carries moderate cooling to highs around 69 degrees with only trace snowfall, bringing the primary rut into its peak. October cold—highs dropping to 55 degrees with monthly snowfall totaling around 1.2 inches—marks the final weeks, when animals are grouping for winter and snow can make some of the muddy roads in this area even more difficult to travel.

Licence and how this hunt area is drawn

Hunt Area 100 (Bear River Divide) is limited quota. A licence for it must be drawn for this hunt area specifically, by resident and nonresident alike. Wyoming issues no general pronghorn licence and no region pronghorn licence, so there is no over-the-counter option and no regional fallback: every pronghorn hunt area in the state is drawn on its own.

Wyoming residents have no preference points for pronghorn — the resident pronghorn draw is random, and no resident point cutoff exists for any hunt area in the state. For nonresidents points matter a great deal: Wyoming awards 75% of each nonresident pool through the preference-point draw, top-down by points, and the remaining 25% at random. Nonresidents also choose between the Regular and Special pools — the same hunts at two price points, competing separately.

Seasons (2026)

Type 1 · Any antelope
Archery August 15 – September 9Regular September 10 – October 31
Type 6 · Doe or fawn
Archery August 15 – September 9Regular September 10 – October 31

The wording of each hunt is the Wyoming Game & Fish Department’s and is legally exact — a “cow or calf” hunt is not a pronghorn hunt in general, and a hunt limited to part of the area is not valid across it. Confirm every hunt in the current regulations before applying.

Hunting each season

Type 1 — Any antelope (August–October)

Archery and regular seasons both span August 15 through October 31, allowing hunters to pursue any antelope throughout the entire period. The archery window begins in late August with territory-forming bucks and doe movements, when highs hover near 78 degrees and the landscape is dry. As September arrives, the primary rut drives animals into more visible movement and herd interaction, cooling to highs around 69 degrees with virtually no precipitation. The regular season carries through late September and into October, catching the tail of the rut and the onset of fall grouping as animals cluster for winter; October highs fall to 55 degrees and snowfall totals near 1.2 inches, occasionally making muddy roads impassable and concentrating pronghorn into lower sagebrush flats where they are most reliably found. Public land and enrolled private-access areas offer the primary hunting footprint, though checking the hunt planner map ahead of time is essential for understanding where access actually works.

Type 6 — Doe or fawn (August–October)

Hunters pursuing does and fawns have the same archery and regular season windows as any-antelope hunters—August 15 through September 9 for archery, September 10 through October 31 for regular hunting. Early archery hunting catches animals as they establish pre-rut patterns and begin moving more, with warm late-August conditions giving way to the primary rut's intensity through September. The regular season's cooler October weather, with snowfall beginning to accumulate and temperatures dropping to the mid-50s, tends to concentrate does and fawns in accessible sagebrush country. Access strategies remain the same: public BLM and state trust land in the northern third offer more open hunting, while the southern checkerboard requires either enrollment-programme access or careful coordination with private landowners to reach public parcels.

Land and access

BLM51%

Generally open to public hunting

private land44%

Private

State Trust Land5%

Generally open to public hunting

About 56% of this hunt area is ground a hunter can generally count on — BLM and State Trust Land, roughly 470 square miles. Public ownership is not the same as easy entry: roads, trailheads, seasonal closures and private inholdings all still apply.

State trust land counts toward the open figure above. Wyoming extends hunting on legally accessiblestate trust land to the public unless a parcel is specifically closed — the catch is the access itself, since crossing private ground to reach it still needs the landowner’s permission. Camping, fires and off-road vehicles are not allowed on it.

This hunt area has 2 enrolled walk-in areas. It also holds 1 Hunter Management Area. Both are private ground enrolled for public access, not public land. A Hunter Management Area requires a printed permission slip from the Wyoming Game & Fish Department before hunting it. A Walk-In Area needs no permission slip — a hunter may walk in during the open period, subject to its posted rules. Enrollment is renegotiated every year, so check current status before counting on either.

Where pronghorn are mapped

Summer Range70%

used in summer

Winter Range23%

used in winter

Yearlong Range16%

the only layer that means year-round use

Crucial Winter Range11%

the part of Winter Range considered essential to the herd — inside Winter Range, not added to it

Each figure is the share of the hunt area that layer covers. It says where pronghorn are mapped, not where inside the area they are, and not when they move.

Habitat and cover

Across the unit

Sagebrush91%

Other cover3%

Grass and meadow2%

Riparian2%

Conifer1%

Aspen1%

Shares are of each elevation band, not of the whole hunt area — they describe what grows up there, not how much of the area sits at that elevation.

Weather through the season

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Snowfall
January	30°F	8°F	8.5 in
February	32°F	9°F	8 in
March	42°F	18°F	4.5 in
April	51°F	24°F	2.9 in
May	60°F	33°F	0.1 in
June	71°F	39°F	0 in
July	80°F	46°F	0 in
August	78°F	45°F	0 in
September	69°F	36°F	0.2 in
October	55°F	27°F	1.2 in
November	40°F	17°F	6.8 in
December	30°F	8°F	8.2 in

Snowfall is the monthly total, not depth lying on the ground.

Common questions

Can a hunter get a licence for hunt area 100 if the draw does not come through?: No. Hunt area 100 is limited quota, drawn specifically for this area by both residents and nonresidents. Wyoming issues no general pronghorn licence that can be bought over the counter and no regional licence that applies to hunt areas that miss the draw. If a hunter is not drawn for hunt area 100, there is no alternative licence to hunt pronghorn here.
Do Wyoming residents need preference points for pronghorn in hunt area 100?: No. Wyoming residents do not use preference points for any pronghorn hunt. The resident pronghorn draw for hunt area 100 is random, and no resident point cutoff exists for this or any other pronghorn hunt area in the state. Nonresidents, by contrast, must compete in a preference-point draw where three quarters of the licences go to the highest point holders and a quarter are awarded by random draw.
How much of hunt area 100 can a hunter actually access for pronghorn?: About 56% of the area is public land—BLM and state trust land—that a hunter can generally count on. The northern third sits more openly on BLM. In the southern two-thirds, private land checkerboards with public parcels, and many public parcels are landlocked by private ranches. Some private landowners have enrolled in access programs (Walk-In Areas and a Hunter Management Area), but enrollment is renegotiated annually and is not guaranteed, so hunters should check the hunt planner map before planning a trip.
When do the pronghorn seasons run on hunt area 100?: Archery runs August 15 through September 9, and the regular season runs September 10 through October 31. Type 1 licences allow any antelope, while Type 6 licences are limited to does or fawns. Both season types span the same dates.
What private-land access programmes are available on hunt area 100?: Two Walk-In Areas—Lincoln County Walk In Area 6 and Uinta County Walk In Area 11—allow hunters to walk onto enrolled private land during posted open periods without needing permission slips. A Hunter Management Area called Bear River Divide also offers access to private land, but hunters must obtain a printed permission slip from the landowner before hunting there. Enrollment in all three programmes is renegotiated annually.

Sources

Wyoming Game & Fish — Hunting & Trapping — licence types, general and limited-quota hunts, and season structure
WGFD Hunt Planner — hunt-area boundaries, season dates and the unit descriptions
WGFD — Draw results and odds — how the resident random draw and the nonresident preference-point draw work
WGFD — Regulations — the legal limitations on each hunt, and the statewide licence rules
USGS National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2021) and 3DEP elevation — land cover and terrain by elevation band

Seasons, licence types and boundaries change. Confirm every detail with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department before applying or hunting.

All Wyoming pronghorn hunt areas