Unit research · Washington GMU 178

Peola — Washington

4% public across 177,012 ac. Road access is easy — only 1% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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Black bear draw odds (1)Deer draw odds (4)Elk draw odds (6)Odds and pins: free, no account

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740–4,640 ft

elevation range

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

370 ac

landlocked public

1.88

road miles per mi²

164 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

11 limited-entry black bear, deer and elk hunts are drawn on GMU 178: 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 · 4 draw hunts (2026)$71.31 resident · $751.37 nonresident

Elk tag · 6 draw hunts (2026)$78.90 resident · $837.90 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 →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 3%■ SFW 1%■ BLM 0%□ Private 96%

Unit area177,012 ac

Public land7,828 ac (4%)

Landlocked public370 ac (4.7%)

Black bear draw pressure0.43 tags/mi² public (0.018 of total area)

Deer draw pressure6.9 tags/mi² public (0.29 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.94 tags/mi² public (0.040 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)519 mi

Maintained trails164 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road99 ac (1% of public)

Road density1.88 mi/mi²

Managed bySDNR 5k ac · SFW 3k ac · BLM 0k ac

Elevation740–4,640 ft

Median elevation2,600 ft

Median slope10°

Where the ground sits

740 ft4,640 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%

E 27%

S 20%

W 23%

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

28,404 ac of this gmu has burned — 16% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at LEWISTON-NEZ PERCE COUNTY AIRPORT, 29 km from the unit’s center and ~1,200 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · general season

33.1% success

172 taken by 519 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 39% → 33%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	33%	9	27

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

9.3% success

14 taken by 151 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 0% → 9%

Season breakdown · 2025

Season	Success	Harvest	Hunters
Archery	0%	0	28
Muzzleloader	33%	11	33

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

Black bear · 2025 · general season

0% success

0 taken by 130 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 5% → 0%

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)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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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