Unit research · Washington GMU 121

Huckleberry — Washington

19% public across 508,988 ac. Road access is easy — only 6% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 12,608 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 (4)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,280–5,780 ft

elevation range

19%

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

12,608 ac

landlocked public

1.77

road miles per mi²

566 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

9 limited-entry black bear, deer, elk and moose hunts are drawn on GMU 121: 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 · 4 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 12%■ NPS 5%■ BLM 3%□ Private 81%

Unit area508,988 ac

Public land98,870 ac (19%)

Landlocked public12,608 ac (12.8%)

Black bear draw pressure0.74 tags/mi² public (0.13 of total area)

Deer draw pressure0.045 tags/mi² public (0.008 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.15 tags/mi² public (0.025 of total area)

Moose draw pressure0.22 tags/mi² public (0.038 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,410 mi

Maintained trails566 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road6,069 ac (6% of public)

Road density1.77 mi/mi²

Managed bySDNR 60k ac · NPS 24k ac · BLM 14k ac

Elevation1,280–5,780 ft

Median elevation2,510 ft

Median slope11°

Where the ground sits

1,280 ft5,780 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%

E 28%

S 21%

W 29%

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

53,439 ac of this gmu has burned — 10% of the unit. USGS migration corridors cover 19%. 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

19.5% success

3,064 taken by 15,687 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 31% → 20%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	10%	21	207
Muzzleloader	17%	11	66

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

10% success

108 taken by 1,078 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 5% → 10%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	4%	10	257
Muzzleloader	19%	31	164

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

Black bear · 2025 · general season

4% success

149 taken by 3,720 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 4% → 4%

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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