Zone 31 covers the country between McCall and the Frank Church Wilderness boundary, including the upper South Fork Salmon River drainage and the Burgdorf area. Elevations run from about 4,000 feet in the river canyons to over 9,000 feet on the high country. The forest is the central Idaho mix—ponderosa, doug fir, lodgepole, grand fir at mid-elevations, with subalpine fir and whitebark pine at the top. Massive burn scars from the 2007 East Zone Complex and subsequent fires define the vegetation pattern, with brushfields of ceanothus, snowbrush, and lodgepole regeneration covering huge swaths. Payette National Forest holds nearly all of the unit. Forest Road 21 (Warren Wagon Road) is the primary access to the Burgdorf area and continues north into the deep country. The road is rough, slow, and seasonal—snow closes the upper sections by November. McCall is the supply hub three hours by road from the deeper trailheads. Burgdorf Hot Springs is a tiny destination with no real services. Cell service is gone the second you leave McCall. The burn-area elk hunting is the calling card here—the brushy regeneration is loaded with browse and the bulls move through it during the rut. The catch is that hunting brush requires patience and close-range work; you won't be glassing across canyons here.