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Units / Washington / Deer area 2012

Methow Valley · Deer area 2012 · Washington

Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the GMU with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Deer area 2012Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

5%

3,416 ac of 63,750 ac

Landlocked public

181 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

0%

of public · 0 ac

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Terrain — this boundary, not the GMU’s

Elevation1,390–4,090 ft
Median elevation2,070 ft
Median slope9°

Where the ground sits

1,390 ft4,090 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 17%
E 31%
S 23%
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 →

Nearby deer deer areas

Conconully · Deer area 2016 · 34% publicOmak · Deer area 2015 · 6% publicCentral Okanogan · Deer area 2014 · 13% publicLake Chelan North · Deer area 2017 · 6% public

Boundaries from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.