Unit 2-B

Navigate this unit by its scattered buttes and plateau features. Tracy Mountain, Rocky Hill, Toms Butte, and Chocolate Butte serve as reliable visual reference points from distance. The three plateau remnants—Cliffs, Kinley, and Hanley—break up the skyline in distinctive ways useful for glassing and orientation.

Plumley Draw and Rocky Ridge offer terrain breaks worth investigating. The stream network, especially North Fork Bull Creek, Whites Wash, and Little Creek, creates drainage corridors you can follow on the ground. These water features double as travel routes and natural funnels for pronghorn movement.

Elevation change is modest across the unit, spanning just 840 feet from bottom to top. The terrain sits entirely in low prairie country where sagebrush and short grass dominate over 90 percent of the unit. Forest is negligible—less than 5 percent total coverage, mostly scattered ponderosa on the buttes and plateau slopes.

What you're hunting is open grassland with sparse tree cover, ideal for pronghorn and visibility hunting. The few elevated areas like Tracy Mountain, Rocky Hill, and the Chocolate and Windy Buttes provide minor topographic relief and spotting positions; the rest is rolling to flat prairie with shallow draws.

The unit has a well-connected road network—1.8 miles of road per square mile—with major highways and county roads providing logical entry points. Towns like Medora, Belfield, and Fryburg offer services and staging areas. The moderate accessibility and straightforward terrain suggest reasonable hunting pressure, especially near roads and known water sources.

Private-public ownership is split nearly evenly, requiring attention to boundaries and permissions. The simple topography means savvy hunters will pressure the plateau tops and creek bottoms where pronghorn concentrate; less-hunted country exists on the lower prairie away from main water features.

Unit 2-B covers 325 square miles of typical western North Dakota prairie anchored by the towns of Fryburg, Belfield, and Medora. The unit spreads across low-elevation grassland between roughly 2,200 and 3,100 feet, with nearly all terrain below 5,000 feet elevation. The landscape is defined by open prairie punctuated by isolated buttes and plateau remnants—Cliffs Plateau, Kinley Plateau, and Hanley Plateau form the main topographic breaks.

Whites Wash and North Fork Bull Creek provide major drainage corridors. The boundary encompasses a mix of public and private land in roughly equal measure.

Water availability is moderate and fairly reliable. Multiple named creeks—including Bear Creek, Tepee Creek, North Fork Bull Creek, South Fork Bull Creek, Sheep Creek, and Third Creek—run through the unit and provide perennial or seasonal flow. Sully Creek and Railroad Creek add to drainage options.

Belfield Pond offers a known water source. The plateau country and gentle topography mean creeks stay in defined channels rather than spreading across flats. Dependable water is one reason pronghorn use the area; understanding creek corridors and seep locations shapes your hunting approach.

Unit 2-B is pronghorn country, and the open prairie demands a glassing-and-stalking approach. The buttes and plateaus provide elevated vantage points for scanning surrounding flats; locate animals from distance, plan your approach, then use the shallow draws and terrain folds for cover while closing distance. Early morning and late afternoon spotting from the buttes is standard.

Water drives hunting strategy—creeks and Belfield Pond concentrate pronghorn, especially in dry periods. The sparse forest offers minimal cover for stalking, so terrain contours and elevation breaks become your tools. Pronghorn are swift and see well; success depends on careful glassing, patience, and disciplined stalking through open country.