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WMU 2D — Pennsylvania
3% public hunting land across 1,591,472 ac. Road access is easy — only 0% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.
Computed from primary government data by the AGPL pipeline. See the code →
Tags & season
Tags: check Pennsylvania Game Commission.
No draw hunts are published for this wmu. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Pennsylvania Game Commission's regulations.
Season dates: see Pennsylvania Game Commission's regulations
Fees and draw dates from Pennsylvania Game Commission, 2026-27, verified 2026-08-12. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a wmu that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: PGC — Licence types and prices · 58 Pa. Code § 143.202 — Elk application, $10 nonrefundable fee · 34 Pa.C.S. § 2709 — Issuing agent compensation · PGC — Antlerless deer licence rounds · PGC — Final 2026-27 seasons and bag limits · PGC — Licence year catalog (the printed fee schedule; the only PGC publication carrying the elk licence price).
Land & access
Backcountry
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →
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Burn history, migration coverage, and terrain for this wmu — The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.
Season conditions — measured, not vibes
Historical temperatures · 2000–2025
Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month
Measured at DU BOIS-JEFFERSON CO ARPT, 56 km from the unit’s center and ~500 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.
Harvest — agency survey estimates
Deer · 2024
42,200 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
13,400 bucks
Deer harvest · 2009–2024 · 25,900 → 42,200
Black bear · 2023
146 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
68 boars · 78 sows
Black bear harvest · 2013–2023 · 171 → 146
Turkey · 2023
4,123 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
Turkey harvest · 2009–2023 · 4,915 → 4,123
Per-WMU deer, bear and turkey counts, 2009-2024, taken from the Feature Service behind PGC's public harvest dashboards rather than from PDFs. No hunter counts and no success rates: Pennsylvania does not sell licences by WMU, so no per-unit denominator exists in any publication, and deriving one from statewide sales would be inventing a number the agency does not have. Empty here means the agency does not know either. Bear carries a real male/female split. Deer does not — the published split is antlered/antlerless, and while antlered deer are male, the antlerless class includes button bucks, so it is reported as a total plus an antlered count and never as "female". Two exclusions, both counted rather than silently dropped. Spring turkey for licence year 2023 is withheld: the service's LicenseYear is inconsistent across columns in that row — fall turkey and bear are calendar 2023 but the spring figures are spring 2024, verified against report 27013 (1A=2215.67, 2D=3619.77, 5D=114.91), and spring 2023 is absent from the service entirely. And the "UK" bucket — harvest PGC could not assign to a WMU, ~780 deer in 2024 — is skipped, since it matches no unit. WMU 2H appears in rows through 2022. It was eliminated in April 2023 and the boundary layer carries only active units, so those rows are real history that joins to no current unit page. That is correct, not drift. Spring turkey success rates by WMU, with standard errors, DO exist — in report 27013, a different source from this one. Ingesting them is the obvious next round and would make PA the only state where we publish a per-unit success rate the agency computed rather than one we derived. Source: PGC Historic Harvest Data (Big Game Historic Harvests by WMU) · PGC Wildlife Management Annual Reports (spring turkey, report 27013).
How these numbers are made
Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.
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