Archery - 15 or 30 days depending on GMU
Late Archery - 18 days
Muzzleloader - 5 days
Late Muzzleloader - 18 days
Modern Weapon - 9 days

Mule deer populations in central and eastern Washington are stable to slightly increasing.  Herds are recovering from temporary loss of habitat resulting from an extensive widfire season in 1994 and severe winter losses during the winter of 1996-97.  Mule deer have rebounded in most locations but are still not at the levels prior to the winter of 1996-97.  Washington is currently experiencing another active wildfire season.  Time will tell what impact this may have on mule deer populations.

Currently a cooperative mule deer research project is being conducted looking at survival, recruitment, sources of mortatlity and their relationships to body condition and habitat quantity and quality.  Several agencies and NGO's are cooperating with WDFW to conduct this project.

In 2001, Washington implemented a computerized point-of-sale licensing system and will also require mandatory hunter activity reporting for each big game license sold.  Both successful and unsuccessful hunters are required to report hunting activity.  Hunters reporting on time will be automatically entered in incentive deer and elk raffles.  Hunters not reporting before the deadline will be unable to buy a 2002 hunting license until they've reported hunting activity for 2001.