California · Bear Hunting Data

California Bear Unit D7

Sightings, hotspots, and hunt insights for California Game Management Unit D7.

California's D7 is a brutal west-slope Sierra unit where bears work a stair-step rise from 1,500-foot oak-chaparral foothills to an 11,000-foot granite crest, sliced by the canyon breaks of the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, and San Joaquin drainages. This is water-rich country, so bears are not pinned to predictable tanks; they follow black oak acorn mast, bitterbrush, and ceanothus across timbered benches. Our pack covers it all: Unit Overview and Topography, Vegetation and Hydrology, Seasonal Expectations, Logistics and Access, plus a one-page Essential Recon summary. Study the unit on our interactive map, then export the points you choose into onX or your favorite hunting map.
18
Total Bear Spotted
9
Hotspots Identified
Active
Status · Data Available
California Bear Unit D7 boundary map
Unit D7 boundary within California · orange area is covered by this Data Pack

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How this data was collected

Data Hunt Guide aggregates publicly available sighting reports from across the web (social media, hunting forums, harvest reports, and trail-camera shares) and uses a proprietary algorithm to identify high-activity zones (hotspots) within each unit. Our team verifies coordinates manually before publication.