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Unit research · Washington GMU 448

Stillaguamish — Washington

83% public across 718,552 ac. Real backcountry here — 33% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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60–7,630 ft

elevation range

83%

public land

33%

of public >1 mi from a road

4,442 ac

landlocked public

1.55

road miles per mi²

1,427 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

One limited-entry deer hunt is drawn on GMU 448: apply in the Washington draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$71.31 resident · $751.37 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 63%SDNR 18%CNTY 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 17%
Unit area718,552 ac
Public land595,874 ac (83%)
Landlocked public4,442 ac (0.7%)
Deer draw pressure0.013 tags/mi² public (0.011 of total area)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,738 mi
Maintained trails1,427 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road196,923 ac (33% of public)
Road density1.55 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 452k ac · SDNR 132k ac · CNTY 5k ac
Elevation60–7,630 ft
Median elevation2,510 ft
Median slope23°

Where the ground sits

60 ft7,630 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 22%
S 26%
W 27%

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

38,753 ac of this gmu has burned — 5% 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

17% success

205 taken by 1,204 hunters

Deer hunter success · 2018–2025 · 16% → 17%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery10%14142
Muzzleloader21%61298

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

Elk · 2025 · general season

0% success

0 taken by 53 hunters

Elk hunter success · 2018–2025 · 6% → 0%

Season breakdown · 2025
SeasonSuccessHarvestHunters
Archery0%017
Muzzleloader0%016

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

Black bear · 2025 · general season

6.3% success

28 taken by 442 hunters

Black bear hunter success · 2013–2025 · 7% → 6%

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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