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Unit research · California Zone D9

Zone D9 — California

59% public across 932,667 ac. Real backcountry here — 76% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 18,354 ac of public land has no public route in.

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59%

public land

76%

of public >1 mi from a road

18,354 ac

landlocked public

0.14

road miles per mi²

362 mi

maintained trails

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

Land & access

■ BLM 30%■ USFS 18%■ NGO 7%■ Other public 4%□ Private 41%
Unit area932,667 ac
Public land546,314 ac (59%)
Landlocked public18,354 ac (3.4%)
Walk-in access2,906 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)205 mi
Maintained trails362 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road417,489 ac (76% of public)
Road density0.14 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 277k ac · USFS 168k ac · NGO 65k 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 D847% public · 64% remoteZone D103% public · 92% remoteZone D1150% public · 92% remote

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