Wenatchee National Forest and Teanaway Community Forest dominate the northern portion with three main drainages to the Yakima River. The two western drainages feed the Kachess and Cle Elum Lakes, and the eastern drainage, the Teanaway, feeds the Yakima River. Hawkins Mountain peaks at 7,106-ft while its neighbor, Gallaher Head, tops out at 6,339-ft; they are both well above the timberline at around 5,600-ft. This is a steep, heavily forested unit that drops about 5,500-ft in only twenty miles. Malcolm Mountain to Elbow Peak is roadless backcountry. In 2017 the Jolly Mountain fire burned a huge horseshoe around this region from Cle Elum River to the South Fork Teanaway River and south to the Middle Fork Teanaway River. Along the Yakima River, outside the town of Cle Elum, there has been a fair amount of development, largely in single family housing on small acreages. This GMU holds a good number of resident mule deer, however, the unit always gets better after the surrounding high country gets significant snowfall. The same applies to elk hunting, the northern remote higher elevations offer better hunting later in the year after heavy snowfall in bordering high country.

WDFW monitors a pack of wolves in the region known as the Teanaway Pack.