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Operator information

• Name: Dave Freiss
• Phone: 801-598-8709
• Email: davefreiss@msn.com

CWMU description

The Promontory Point Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is located on the very south end of the Promontory Mountains, three sides of the Unit are surrounded by the Great Salt Lake. The Promontory Mountains start at 5500 feet elevation in the south, then drop into Little Valley, 5000 feet elevation. Then increase to 6800 feet before decreasing again. On the eastside the Promontory Mountains are cut by Maple canyon, 4200 feet to 5000 feet and Cellar Canyon, 4200 feet to 5400 feet elevation. On the west side. Long Canyon, 4200 feet to 6200 feet; and Brushy Canyon, 5400 feet to 5800 feet, cut the mountains. The most common elevation is 4300 feet but ranges from 4200 feet to 7000 feet with an elevation difference of 2800 feet. Fifty-three percent (53%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 4900 feet and 6300 feet an elevation difference of 1400 feet.

Over seventy percent of the Promontory Point Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is a combination of Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland (48), Great Basin Pinyon- Juniper (37), and Invasive Annual Grassland (121). Invasive Annual Grasslands and Big Sage-brush Shrubland and at the lower elevations, and Pinyon-Juniper are at the higher elevations. There are areas of Inter-Mountain Basins Semi-Desert Grassland (76) and areas of Invasive Annual and Biennial Forbland (122). Nearer the Great Salt Lake are areas of Inter- Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat and Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland (49). In the middle of the unit is an area of Recently Mined or Quarried land cover.

One of the Promontory Point Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, BEAR RIVER BAY (420490), is 10.0 km east of the east edge of the CWMU. BEAR RIVER BAY has twenty-seven (27) years of records, 1969 - 1996. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 3.95 inches, but it can be as high as 9.13 inches or as low as 1.61 inches. During the 91-day FALL period, 21 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 10 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 2 days of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. Snowfall during the FALL averages less than an inch. FALL temperature at BEAR RIVER BAY averages 51.8degrees F. but can be as high as 94.0 degrees F. or as low as 10.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 17 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and 1 day above 90 degrees F.

Location

• Counties: Box Elder
• Wildlife management unit(s): Box Elder

Access contact

• Name: Dave Freiss
• Phone: 801-598-8709
• Best time to contact: Anytime

Property size

An estimate of the property size and the public/private composition

Drawing odds

Drawing odds are the odds of obtaining a permit for this CWMU.

Satisfaction index

The satisfaction index ranges from 1 to 5 with 5 being the best. Hunters are asked how they rate their hunt and the satisfaction index is an average of those responses. This is a five-year average.

Hunter success

Hunter success is the percent of hunters who successfully harvested an animal, reported for years in which data is available.

Average age

An estimate of average animal age

Hunting opportunities (acres, days and dates)

The opportunity to hunt on this CWMU depends on the type of animal hunted

Available hunting permits

Private indicates that there are permits available for sale by the CWMU operator

Common questions

Rules of conduct

• None specified