Spring 2004 -- 4,575
Spring 2003 -- 4,513

2006 Season Dates --- April 15 - May 15

Youth Season: April 9-10

Bag limit 1 -3 (varies)

Legal Birds - Gobblers and turkeys with visible beards ONLY

Legal Hours - 1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset

Washington is one of the only states in the country where hunters can harvest three different turkey sub-species. Merriam turkeys are present in Stevens, Pend Oreille, Ferry, Klickitat, Yakima, Kittitas, Chelan and Okanogan counties; Rio Grande turkeys are in Lincoln County and southeast Washington; and eastern turkeys are present in southwest Washington.

Hunters can take up to three tom turkeys (turkeys with visible beards) per season. Two birds may be harvested in eastern Washington per year but only one of those may be taken in Chelan, Kittitas and Yakima counties combined. Two turkeys may be harvested per year in Klickitat County.

Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2004 for permit holders
and general season in GMU 101 - 124

Bag limit - 1 either sex

The fall wild turkey hunting season, which has been by permit only in the past, will now include seven game management units in northeast Washington's Spokane, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties which will be open to all hunters with valid turkey tags. Open turkey hunting in the Kelly Hill (105), Douglas (108), Aladdin (111), Selkirk (113), 49 Degrees North (117), Huckleberry (121) and Mount Spokane (124) units will help address nuisance problems that have increased with the turkey population. Fall turkey permit hunting will continue in other northeast, southeast, and southwest units of the state, including 50 additional permits in the Sherman (101) unit.