Washington Elk — GMU 239
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Washington GMU 239 covers 227,449 acres and lies 59 miles north of Wenatchee and 81 miles north of Moses Lake. 52% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (27%) and national forest (18%). 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 239 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 109,468 ac · 48%
- State trust land 60,464 ac · 27%
- National Forest 41,599 ac · 18%
- State land 10,898 ac · 5%
- BLM 5,017 ac · 2%
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 | 14 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2021 | 11 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 0 · 0% · 4 hunters, 0% success
- Firearm 2 · 100% · 101 hunters, 2% success
- Muzzleloader 0 · 0% · 5 hunters, 0% 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)