Sage-Grouse General Any Weapon Season

Management Area 2
Unlimited Tags

9/16/2006 - 9/22/2006

Species
Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
Antlerless or Antlered Sage-Grouse
Either sex may be taken.
Short-Range or Falconry
Archery, Muzzleloader, Shotgun, or Falcon ONLY.

Daily Bag Limit 1, Possession Limit 2

Restrictions
  • Sage/Sharp-tailed Grouse Permit Validation: Any person hunting sage or sharp-tailed grouse must have in possession their license with a sage/sharp-tailed grouse permit validation. Permit validations are available at any license vendor or online.

Twin Falls County and most of Cassia County are closed to the hunting of sharp-tailed grouse. Be sure of your target!

Management Area 2
Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine County east of the Arco-Minidoka Road, Bonneville, Butte County south of US Highways 20/26 and 22/33 and east of the Arco-Minidoka Road and the entire Birch Creek drainage, Caribou, Cassia EXCEPT that portion south of Interstate 86 and east of Interstate 84, Clark, Franklin, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi County within the Birch Creek drainage, Madison, Oneida EXCEPT that portion north and east of Interstate 84, Owyhee County north of the Juniper Mountain/Mud Flat/Poison Creek roads and Highway 78 to Grandview and the Snake River, Owyhee County east of the Bruneau River, Power County north of Interstate 86, Twin Falls and Teton Counties. Area Size: 15,869,282 acres
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More information about the Game Management Unit(s) in this hunt: UNK 29 30A 38 38 40 41 42 46 47 51 52A 52A 53 53 53 54 55 57 58 59 59A 60 60A 61 62 62A 63 63A 64 65 66 66A 67 68 68 68A 68A 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 77 78 78

Resident Tags and Permits

  • Sage/Sharp-tailed Grouse Permit
  • Falconry Permit* (Valid for 3 years from purchase year)
  • Handicapped Motor Vehicle Permit*

NonResident Tags and Permits

  • Sage/Sharp-tailed Grouse Permit
  • Falconry Permit* (Valid for 3 years from purchase year)
  • Handicapped Motor Vehicle Permit*

A valid hunting license is required for all hunting and trapping activities.
* Indicates this item is optional.

Where to purchase

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Surface Management

For government land, these data show the managing agency of the land, which may or not be the same as the owning agency.

Graph illustrating 36.88 percent Private 5,853,079 acres   36.9%
Graph illustrating 29.45 percent U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 4,674,281 acres   29.5%
Graph illustrating 18.16 percent U.S. Forest Service (USFS) 2,881,111 acres   18.2%
Graph illustrating 6.01 percent State of Idaho 954,453 acres   6%
Graph illustrating 3.5 percent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 554,712 acres   3.5%
Graph illustrating 2.7 percent Indian Reservation / Bureau of Indian Affairs 428,683 acres   2.7%
Graph illustrating 0.8 percent U.S. National Park Service (NPS) 126,217 acres   0.8%
Graph illustrating 0.73 percent U.S. Military 116,130 acres   0.7%
Graph illustrating 0.61 percent Other 96,716 acres   0.6%
Graph illustrating 0.53 percent U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) 84,860 acres   0.5%
Graph illustrating 0.18 percent U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) 28,179 acres   0.2%
Graph illustrating 0.14 percent U.S. National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) 22,497 acres   0.1%
Graph illustrating 0.04 percent U.S. Corps of Engineers (COE) 6,147 acres   0%
Graph illustrating 0.03 percent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 4,525 acres   0%

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Land management via Inside Idaho

Access Yes! Properties

Access Yes! is Fish and Game program designed to improve hunting and fishing access to private land or through private land to public land by compensating willing landowners who provide access.

Federally-designated Wilderness Areas

No motorized vehicles are allowed in these areas.