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Unit research · Washington GMU 372

Rattlesnake Hills — Washington

33% public across 797,988 ac. Real backcountry here — 51% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 12,373 ac of public land has no public route in.

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320–3,620 ft

elevation range

33%

public land

51%

of public >1 mi from a road

12,373 ac

landlocked public

1.94

road miles per mi²

1,075 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on GMU 372: apply in the Washington draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$71.31 resident · $751.37 nonresident
Elk tag · 1 draw hunt (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

DOE 25%BLM 3%SDNR 3%■ Other public 2%□ Private 67%
Unit area797,988 ac
Public land259,653 ac (33%)
Landlocked public12,373 ac (4.8%)
Deer draw pressure0.026 tags/mi² public (0.008 of total area)
Elk draw pressure0.052 tags/mi² public (0.016 of total area)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,419 mi
Maintained trails1,075 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road132,547 ac (51% of public)
Road density1.94 mi/mi²
Managed byDOE 201k ac · BLM 24k ac · SDNR 21k ac
Elevation320–3,620 ft
Median elevation980 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

320 ft3,620 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 23%
S 30%
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

233,195 ac of this gmu has burned — 29% of the unit. 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

12.1% success

46 taken by 379 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 22% → 12%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery3%4139
Muzzleloader21%419

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

18.8% success

24 taken by 128 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 13% → 19%

Black bear · 2025 · general season

0% success

0 taken by 71 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2015–2025 · 20% → 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)

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.

Nearby GMUs

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