Unit research · Washington GMU 108

Douglas — Washington

24% public across 184,491 ac. Road access is easy — only 2% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 4,416 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Black bear draw odds (1)Deer draw odds (2)Elk draw odds (2)Moose draw odds (3)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,290–5,770 ft

elevation range

24%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

4,416 ac

landlocked public

2.63

road miles per mi²

420 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

8 limited-entry black bear, deer, elk and moose hunts are drawn on GMU 108: apply in the Washington draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Black bear tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$42.47 resident · $458.40 nonresident

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$71.31 resident · $751.37 nonresident

Elk tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$78.90 resident · $837.90 nonresident

Moose tag · 3 draw hunts (2026)$467.01 resident · $2,431.30 nonresident

Plus: Washington big game hunting licence$61.70 resident · $599.07 nonresident

Season dates: see Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's regulations

WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) ↗

WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) ↗Draw odds for Washington black bear →Draw odds for Washington deer →Draw odds for Washington elk →Draw odds for Washington moose →How the Washington draw works →

Fees and draw dates from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2026, verified 2026-08-15 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a gmu that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: WDFW — Big game hunting licences and tags (2026) · WDFW — Special hunt permits.

Land & access

■ SDNR 13%■ USFS 8%■ BLM 2%■ Other public 1%□ Private 76%

Unit area184,491 ac

Public land44,368 ac (24%)

Landlocked public4,416 ac (10.0%)

Black bear draw pressure0.64 tags/mi² public (0.14 of total area)

Deer draw pressure0.096 tags/mi² public (0.021 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.16 tags/mi² public (0.035 of total area)

Moose draw pressure0.16 tags/mi² public (0.035 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)757 mi

Maintained trails420 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road1,018 ac (2% of public)

Road density2.63 mi/mi²

Managed bySDNR 25k ac · USFS 15k ac · BLM 4k ac

Elevation1,290–5,770 ft

Median elevation2,750 ft

Median slope13°

Where the ground sits

1,290 ft5,770 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%

E 28%

S 20%

W 32%

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 →

Unit intelligence report

15,194 ac of this gmu has burned — 8% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 1%. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · general season

23.2% success

195 taken by 839 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 34% → 23%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	18%	10	57
Muzzleloader	31%	4	13

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Elk · 2025 · general season

10.2% success

28 taken by 274 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 2% → 10%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	3%	2	60
Muzzleloader	32%	19	60

Which season is the value play here — same ground, different odds.

Black bear · 2025 · general season

9.9% success

13 taken by 131 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 6% → 10%

Harvest estimates from WDFW's hunter reports, published per GAME MANAGEMENT UNIT as HTML tables — the only state we carry that publishes harvest as structured markup rather than as a PDF whose layout has to be recovered from whitespace. Success rates are WDFW's own and are carried verbatim. METHOD IS THE VARIANT. Archery, Modern Firearm and Muzzleloader are separate seasons with separate tags in Washington, so a hunter appears in exactly one and the 'all' row is their sum. "Multiple Weapons" is its own tag type rather than a total, and is carried as its own variant. ⚠️ TWO TABLE SHAPES. Deer and elk put the GMU in the table's caption with one row per method beneath; black bear puts the GMU in the row's first cell with no method column. WDFW also upper-cases unit names in the deer and elk reports ("101 - SHERMAN") and title-cases them in the bear reports ("501 - Lincoln") — an uppercase-only pattern reads deer and elk perfectly and silently skips every bear table. General-season reports only. WDFW's special-permit tables carry harvest by point class but no hunter count and no success rate, so they cannot be turned into a rate and are not ingested; the general-season tables cover the same units. Deer and elk carry eight seasons and black bear thirteen — the older deer and elk reports use a layout this reader does not handle and are omitted whole rather than in part. Source: WDFW Game Harvest Reports (per GMU, per season).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
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Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

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