Grand Mesa, Western Colorado. Here's the terrain, access, and license picture, plus how to hunt it under pressure.
The heavily forested Grand Mesa carries spruce, fir and aspen up high, transitioning down through pine into oak brush and sage, then to pinyon-juniper and near-desert at the lowest elevations.
With about half the unit public, checkerboarded ownership makes mapping boundaries important; National Forest and BLM tracts provide the main access.
Hunt the dense spruce-fir and aspen pockets on the mesa for security cover, and watch the oak brush and sage transition zones lower down where elk feed away from the forested top.
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