where is the public land?!?!?

[police women of America]

I went to WDFW website and all they say is Private land access. But I want to know where the Public land access is? Is it anywhere you can find it away from towns? Or do they have public hunting access sites somewhere? Are there boundary's? Where are they!!!! Thanks 

[Dhoey07]

Check out county assesor GIS maps online.  BLM maps are pretty helpful in finding larger chunks of public land. 

[h20hunter]

PWOA....think of these maps as a mallet....not a fine detail tool but a good overall view.........

http://www.dnr.wa.gov/BusinessPermits/Topics/Maps/Pages/public_lands_quadrangle_maps.aspx

[bobcat]

Get some National Forest maps and some DNR Public Land maps.

The Go Hunt map on the WDFW site also shows public lands- you just need to switch over to the public lands map instead of using the default.

[police women of America]

Get some National Forest maps and some DNR Public Land maps.

The Go Hunt map on the WDFW site also shows public lands- you just need to switch over to the public lands map instead of using the default.

oh, thanks!

[police women of America]

Thanks for the reply's!

[bobcat]

These are my favorite maps for showing public lands. They can be ordered online:

http://www.dnr.wa.gov/BusinessPermits/Topics/Maps/Pages/public_lands_quadrangle_maps.aspx

[bmccalister]

Great advice. All the same places I would recommend.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Check out county assesor GIS maps online.  BLM maps are pretty helpful in finding larger chunks of public land.

I second the BLM maps.  The only drawback to them that I found is that they don't show the road numbers or names, so I used a highlighter to transfer the tracts to my Washington Delorme Atlas & Gazetteer book.

[Peskadot]

Good advice here.. Tagged

[irishevox]

On this topic.... here is a question looking where to find where a GMU ends and another begins... also what if your hunting a border of one GMU and your game runs on to another GMU..... how do you do it.. like GMU 407butts up agains GMU 413 ( Nooksak requires a special permit)  So how do you approach that?

[Heredoggydoggy]

The actual boundaries of the GMU's are spelled out in the game pamphlet.  Public land is usually divided up by "section lines".  sometimes only half of a section or a part of it is public.  The BLM maps pretty much show it all....  I don't know what the rules are governing an animal shot in one GMU and it runs into another GMU.  It never was an issue for me, I guess.

[Tbar]

On this topic.... here is a question looking where to find where a GMU ends and another begins... also what if your hunting a border of one GMU and your game runs on to another GMU..... how do you do it.. like GMU 407butts up agains GMU 413 ( Nooksak requires a special permit)  So how do you approach that?

The 407/418 boundary is well defined in the reg pamphlet.

[TRD1911]

Thanks for the info; I was just asking this same question on google.

[police women of America]

On this topic.... here is a question looking where to find where a GMU ends and another begins... also what if your hunting a border of one GMU and your game runs on to another GMU..... how do you do it.. like GMU 407butts up agains GMU 413 ( Nooksak requires a special permit)  So how do you approach that?

you can find GMU lines in the Big Game pamphlet on pages 40-41
and you can find the area descriptions on pages 106-119. if you shoot your deer (for example lets say GMU 223 and 224) in GMU 223 and it runs into 224 then you are allowed to harvest the deer.
but if your deer goes into GMU 224 when your hunting in 223 then you cant shoot it till it goes back in 224. And of course i mean if the unit your hunting next to has different laws.