"Official" Drainage Maps - WY

[Prerylyon]

Question here at the height of the WY elk application season for us out of staters: say, a tag stipulates: "valid only in the jackrabbit creek drainage", where could a guy find the official map the WYGF uses to define "jackrabbit creek drainage" in the context of their tag? (this is a made up creek for this example)

I can look at topos and play Lewis and Clark with it, but its still not the official answer. Just want to make sure I understand where such a tag limits me.
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Thanks!

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[kidoggy]

I would just call the WYGF main office. they can and will answer any questions you may have, concerning such things.
here in idaho ,unit maps or forest service maps can be found at cabelas , sportsmans, wharehouse, and many other sportsman stores. would bet same can be said of WY.

you could probably just get on cabellas website and have one shipped right to your door.

the delorme atlas and gazeteer , makes a book of maps for each state. it is also a fairly detailed map of roads drainages and such. not the detail the unit and forest service maps have but not bad

 

[HiMtnHnter]

Question here at the height of the WY elk application season for us out of staters: say, a tag stipulates: "valid only in the jackrabbit creek drainage", where could a guy find the official map the WYGF uses to define "jackrabbit creek drainage" in the context of their tag? (this is a made up creek for this example)

I can look at topos and play Lewis and Clark with it, but its still not the official answer. Just want to make sure I understand where such a tag limits me.
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Thanks!

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If you can find a topo map of the drainage it's all the country that drains into that drainage. Take a typical drainage with ridges on each side, it'd be from the tops of those ridges on down, including all ephemeral streams and such.

 

[Prerylyon]

Well, right; that's what I would assume; but land boundaries can be funny.

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[kidoggy]

Well, right; that's what I would assume; but land boundaries can be funny.

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you could get a GPS and learn to use it. you can get apps that show public ,private. who owns what. and pert near anything else one could dream up to ask.

 

[HiMtnHnter]

Think of it like the Continental Divide, you're either in the eastern drainage or western. Those with knowledge of the great divide basin don't try to be funny here...

 

[Prerylyon]

you could get a GPS and learn to use it. you can get apps that show public ,private. who owns what. and pert near anything else one could dream up to ask.

I have one and I know how to use it, as well as a compass . My question is about what official map the WYGF uses when they define a specific named drainage as the region a tag is good for.

I can look at elevations and see the flow of water into a systems of creeks on maps-I get the concept. And see how a named creek or river collects the water from an area within a system of dividing ridges based on elevation. But, at the end of the day, that's my interpretation. I was just wondering if someone knew if there were official maps that delineated this type of information that WYGF used-so everyone was working off the same page.

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[kidoggy]

I have one and I know how to use it, as well as a compass . My question is about what official map the WYGF uses when they define a specific named drainage as the region a tag is good for.

I can look at elevations and see the flow of water into a systems of creeks on maps-I get the concept. And see how a named creek or river collects the water from an area within a system of dividing ridges based on elevation. But, at the end of the day, that's my interpretation. I was just wondering if someone knew if there were official maps that delineated this type of information that WYGF used-so everyone was working off the same page.

Regards,

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never had any issues myself. always seemed pretty straightforward to me. but kudos for your efforts in trying to get it right.

I would guess they use forest service andor BLM maps.

but as I said in first post, call em up and ask them ,to be sure. they will help.

 

[Prerylyon]

KD,

Yeah, that makes sense. Those folks have been helpful in the past and returned calls. I know it might seem paranoid to be so specific, just want to make sure I understand where I can legally hunt on a tag. [emoji4]

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[WapitiBob]

They don't have an official map. If you're looking at the muddy cr drainage, or any drainage for that matter, it's easily mapped out using google earth and the line tool.