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Unit research · Washington GMU 346

Little Naches — Washington

99% public across 152,236 ac. Road access is easy — only 20% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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2,130–6,890 ft

elevation range

99%

public land

20%

of public >1 mi from a road

187 ac

landlocked public

1.49

road miles per mi²

322 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

3 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on GMU 346: apply in the Washington draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Elk tag · 3 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)

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

USFS 92%SFW 6%SDNR 1%□ Private 1%
Unit area152,236 ac
Public land150,800 ac (99%)
Landlocked public187 ac (0.1%)
Elk draw pressure0.11 tags/mi² public (0.11 of total area)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)355 mi
Maintained trails322 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road30,463 ac (20% of public)
Road density1.49 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 141k ac · SFW 9k ac · SDNR 2k ac
Elevation2,130–6,890 ft
Median elevation4,290 ft
Median slope18°

Where the ground sits

2,130 ft6,890 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%
E 23%
S 32%
W 22%

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

34,227 ac of this gmu has burned — 22% 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

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F31° high24° lowJFMAMJJASOND

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

Measured at STAMPASS PASS FLTWO, 31 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Deer · 2025 · general season

5.3% success

158 taken by 2,995 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 3% → 5%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery11%46414

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

5.1% success

72 taken by 1,421 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 4% → 5%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery3%4136

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

Black bear · 2025 · general season

6.7% success

121 taken by 1,808 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 0% → 7%

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)

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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