A summary of major changes include:

DEER

• 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 and expand into a part of Unit 76.

• Reinstate 390 either-sex deer tags in units 60, 62, 64, 66 and 67.

• Create 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.

ELK

• 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.

• Eliminate extra antlerless tags in units 68A, 74 and 76.

• 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.

More details are available at fishandgame.idaho.gov.