A large portion of this unit is public land, consisting of Colockum and L.T. Murray Wildlife Areas, with a bit of BLM and state ground, mainly along the western boundary. Wild Horse Wind Facility offers Hunt by Reservation creating 9,000-acres of limited public access. Broken conifer forests along the western border quickly fade out to large expanses of rolling rangeland and sagebrush to the Columbia River, serving as the eastern border. The terrain and sage make for easy stalking, however, finding game is not so easy. Sage can be tall enough to hide game which can make for a slow, challenging hunt. This unit gets better as elk and deer move out of the surrounding mountains once their browse is completely covered by snow. Deer hunting reports indicate that not a lot of deer are seen in this unit, there are even some days where no deer are glassed up. Elk hunting is good here.

It can be hard to find a true spike bull in this unit. This area is more rugged than it looks from the roads.