Unit 076 covers the Egan Range and surrounding country running south of Ely between Steptoe Valley and the Cave Valley/Lake Valley country—a long, north-south island of mountain you stare at every time you drive US 93. Elevations span from about 5,800 feet in Lake Valley up to 11,532 feet on Ward Mountain and over 10,936 on Telegraph Peak. The range is steep, rocky, and limestone-banded, with cliff country that bighorn sheep love and mule deer use for bedding. Vegetation runs the standard eastern Nevada stack: sage and bitterbrush in the basins, pinyon-juniper through the benches and lower canyons, mountain mahogany on the rocky shoulders, aspen in the wet draws, and limber pine on the cooler high benches. Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park sits at the mouth of Willow Creek—six 30-foot beehive ovens left over from the 1870s silver smelting days. The country is full of that kind of mining-era ghost. Humboldt-Toiyabe NF runs the crest, BLM fills in the lower country, and there's a scattering of private around the historic mining sites. US 93 frames the east, Highway 318 frames the south, and the canyon roads off Steptoe Valley and Cave Valley climb the flanks. Ely is the obvious supply hub. Cell service is in Ely and gone past the canyon mouths. Mule deer are the headline and the Egans produce mature bucks year after year because the country is steep enough to keep most hunters on the easy ridges. Desert bighorn live the cliff bands. Carry water—the canyons have springs but they lie about reliability—and bring boots that can handle limestone scree.