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Unit research · California Zone B5

Zone B5 — California

25% public across 1,314,249 ac. Real backcountry here — 54% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 21,417 ac of public land has no public route in.

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25%

public land

54%

of public >1 mi from a road

21,417 ac

landlocked public

0.24

road miles per mi²

529 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Land & access

■ USFS 18%■ BLM 4%■ NPS 3%□ Private 75%
Unit area1,314,249 ac
Public land326,490 ac (25%)
Landlocked public21,417 ac (6.6%)
Walk-in access9 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)491 mi
Maintained trails529 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road175,890 ac (54% of public)
Road density0.24 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 239k ac · BLM 47k ac · NPS 36k ac
Elevation distribution, slope mix and timberline stats land with the terrain analytics pass — the DEM work is already in the pipeline.

Draw & harvest

Draw odds, harvest rates and season dates are next.

The state agencies publish them — locked in PDFs. The parsing pipeline is the next data milestone, and when it ships, this section fills in for every unit at once, free, with a link to the query that computed it.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

More California units

Zone B423% public · 100% remoteZone B663% public · 36% remoteZone C125% public · 41% remote

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