Washington Elk — GMU 233
Pogue
Washington GMU 233 covers 145,921 acres and lies 77 miles north-east of Wenatchee and 94 miles north of Moses Lake. 45% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (24%) and state land (10%). In 2025, hunters took 2 elk here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered an elk license in GMU 233 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Washington elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 80,155 ac · 55%
- State trust land 34,935 ac · 24%
- State land 14,694 ac · 10%
- BLM 7,881 ac · 5%
- National Forest 7,242 ac · 5%
- Bureau of Reclamation 1,012 ac · 1%
Source: WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands' (NDMPL) layer, federal/state/county/city ownership parcels
How the hunting has gone
What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total.
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 2 · 100% · 48 hunters, 4% success
Boundary: WDFW Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon layer (WP_HuntPlanner/Regulation/MapServer/0)
Harvest: WDFW Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table (WP_HuntPlanner/Harvest/MapServer/1)