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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: optic2 on December 10, 2017, 03:49:13 AM

Title: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: optic2 on December 10, 2017, 03:49:13 AM: I was looking over the 1997 harvest reports http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/1997/97harvst.pdf and couldn't find any information for GMU 247/Entiat. So have the GMUs changed over the years and if so, which GMU did Entiat GMU reside in back then?
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: bobcat on December 10, 2017, 04:54:41 AM: There have been some changes over the years but all that changed with the Entiat was the number. You see it listed in the report you linked as GMU number 308.
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: Wingin it on December 10, 2017, 06:14:24 PM: They sure have! Some of them used to have game in them believe it or not!
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: X-Force on December 10, 2017, 06:38:09 PM: Crazy to see that 1997 deer harvest/hunters totals are nearly the same as 2016.
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: Goshawk on December 10, 2017, 06:41:03 PM: A lot!
484 used to be the Puyallup unit in the 60's and into the 70's which had a southern border of the Nisqually River. They sold a bunch of elk tags for that unit all either sex because as the locals all knew, there's no elk there. When the Bald Hill heard got split up and crossed over the river, the border line got moved north to the McKenna Tanawax Highway. Some folks got ticketed for elk hunting in what was the old Puyallup unit because they diden't realize the unit had changed. When the elk crossed over the highway, then the regulations changed back to the Nisqually river with an elk draw tag only.
Musical boarders back then!
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: Wingin it on December 10, 2017, 09:03:36 PM: Quote from: X-Force on December 10, 2017, 06:38:09 PM
Crazy to see that 1997 deer harvest/hunters totals are nearly the same as 2016.

This makes some sense because if I recall correctly we had a pretty bad winter kill in '96.
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: spin05 on December 12, 2017, 12:57:00 AM: i heard a long time back Swakane used to go all the way to the creat up at Stevens pass. Huge unit at the time....
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: fishnfur on December 29, 2017, 12:35:03 AM: I assumed they did. The GMU numbering makes zero sense in district 10. The numbers are all over the place - it's like they used a dart board to pick a number for each unit.
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: MADMAX on December 29, 2017, 05:20:39 AM: Quote from: Wingin it on December 10, 2017, 06:14:24 PM
They sure have! Some of them used to have game in them believe it or not!

:yeah:
Title: Re: Have GMUs changed over the years
Post by: slowhand on December 29, 2017, 07:18:43 AM: If I recall correctly We hade Mule Deer in this state back then. :bash:
So sad, Poor Mule Deer
Still My favorite, Hope to hunt them again in My life time.
Not enough of them to feel good about killing one.