- Reduce antlerless tags in Units 22, 31, 32, 32A and 39 to maintain or increase deer numbers.
- Move popular rotating muzzleloader controlled hunt from east side of Unit 45 to east side of Unit 52.
- Add new archery hunt in Unit 45 with 10 tags.
- Move archery unlimited controlled hunt in Unit 72 up two weeks to start on November 16 and run through December 5, and expand the hunt area into a part of Unit 76.
- Reinstate 390 either-sex deer tags reduced after 2010-2011 winter in Units 60, 62, 64, 66 and 67.
- Create October 10 through November 30 "high-quality" buck hunts with five tags each in Hunt Areas 21, 28-1, 30, 36A and 36B.
- Convert 85 extra antlerless tags in Units 21 and 36A to youth extra antlerless tags.
- Changes include a net increase of 2,321 controlled hunt tags.
- Increase either-sex tags in Units 2 and 3.
- Eliminate 71 late bull hunt tags in Unit 11 in response to low bull numbers in winter survey.
- Increase antlerless tags in Hells Canyon Units to reduce high cow densities and low calf survival.
- Place a cap on Bear River B Tag to reduce bull harvest about 20 percent. A cap at 550 tags represents reduction of about 20 percent of hunters based on prior five-year average. Proportional reduction allocation: 440 resident tags, 55 nonoutfitted nonresident tags and 54 outfitted tags.
- Shift tags from nonresident allocation to resident hunters in Diamond Creek and Salmon zones where resident quota has been filled but nonresident tags were left unsold.
- Eliminate extra antlerless tags in units 68A, 74 and 76 where depredation conflicts have been successfully resolved.
- Reinstate general season A-tag muzzleloader antlerless hunt in Pioneer Zone units 36A and 50, and increase antlerless controlled hunt tags in Units 49, 50 and 36A.
- Shorten general A-tag any-weapon antlerless hunts in Tex Creek and Palisades zones to reduce cow harvest and increase population.
- Include an increase of 115 tags.
- Create new youth hunts in Unit 39 with five tags, and Unit 54 with 15 tags.
- Increase tags in units 44 and 45 to provide additional opportunity and address depredations.
- Split Hunt Area 68 unlimited controlled archery hunt into two hunts, with 40 tags early and unlimited tags late, to resolve hunter crowding.
- Convert Unit 1 archery-only season to any-weapon opening 16 days earlier.
- Increase harvest in Units 7 and 9 to reduce summer depredation on elk calves.
- Allow use of electronic calls in Units 4, 6, 7 and 9.
- Open season in Panhandle units 16 days earlier on Aug 30.
- Increase harvest in units 7 and 9 by allowing a second tag, use of electronic calls and extending the season two months to close June 30.
- Extend hunting season on private land in the Panhandle Zone to year-round.
- Extend hunting season in the Middle Fork Zone and in that portion of Unit 16 in the Dworshak-Elk City Zone north of the Selway River to end June 30.
- Extend hunting season in Beaverhead and Island Park zones two months to end March 31.
- Increase harvest limit in the Salmon Zone to 45.
- Expand trapping to portions of units 2 and 3.
- Expand trapping to private lands in units 13, 18 and 22 from November 15 through Mar 15.
- Expand trapping season to Island Park and Salmon zones with foothold traps only; except snares may be used on private lands and in that portion of Unit 28 within designated wilderness.