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Units / Washington / Deer area 3072

Paterson · Deer area 3072 · 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 3072Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

18%

670 ac of 3,778 ac

Landlocked public

670 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

13%

of public · 89 ac

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40 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the GMU’s

Elevation270–420 ft
Median elevation280 ft
Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

270 ft420 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 6%
E 0%
S 91%
W 3%

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

Whitcomb · Deer area 3071 · 29% publicSunnyside · Deer area 3372 · 9% publicDeer area 1010 · 2% publicWest Wenaha · Deer area 1008 · 100% 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.