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Unit research · California Zone D12

Zone D12 — California

71% public across 5,332,968 ac. Real backcountry here — 100% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 64,906 ac of public land has no public route in.

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71%

public land

100%

of public >1 mi from a road

64,906 ac

landlocked public

0.00

road miles per mi²

699 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 53%■ NPS 15%■ SDOL 1%■ Other public 2%□ Private 29%
Unit area5,332,968 ac
Public land3,772,888 ac (71%)
Landlocked public64,906 ac (1.7%)
Walk-in access7,877 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)-0 mi
Maintained trails699 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road3,774,831 ac (100% of public)
Road density0.00 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 2807k ac · NPS 784k ac · SDOL 73k 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 D1150% public · 92% remoteZone D1377% public · 65% remoteZone D1459% public · 56% remote

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