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Unit research · Montana District 200

District 200 — Montana

89% public across 152,177 ac. Road access is easy — only 2% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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2,520–6,580 ft

elevation range

89%

public land

2%

of public >1 mi from a road

34 ac

landlocked public

3.15

road miles per mi²

21 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

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2 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on District 200: apply in the Montana draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$5.00 resident · $5.00 nonresident
Elk tag · 1 draw hunt (2026)$9.00 resident · $9.00 nonresident
Plus: Conservation license$8.00 resident · $10.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's regulations

2026 Deer/Elk/Antelope regulations (FWP PDF)

Montana deer and elk draw calendar

  • Sep 30, 2026point window closes
  • Sep 30, 2026point window closes

Fees and draw dates from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, 2026, verified 2026-08-05 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a district that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: FWP license fees for 2026 (fee schedule PDF) · 2026 Deer/Elk/Antelope regulations (FWP PDF) · 2026 Moose/Sheep/Goat/Bison regulations (FWP PDF) · FWP application & drawing dates · MCA 87-2-505 (B-10 combination, $1,312 eff. 2026-03-01).

Land & access

USFS 87%UNK 2%NGO 0%□ Private 11%
Unit area152,177 ac
Public land135,424 ac (89%)
Landlocked public34 ac (0.0%)
Deer draw pressure0.12 tags/mi² public (0.11 of total area)
Elk draw pressure0.024 tags/mi² public (0.021 of total area)
Walk-in access2,366 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)750 mi
Maintained trails21 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road2,056 ac (2% of public)
Road density3.15 mi/mi²
Managed byUSFS 132k ac · UNK 3k ac · NGO 0k ac
Elevation2,520–6,580 ft
Median elevation4,280 ft
Median slope22°

Where the ground sits

2,520 ft6,580 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 15%
E 23%
S 37%
W 26%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

273 ac of this district has burned — 0% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F26° high19° lowJFMAMJJASOND

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at MULLAN PASS, 32 km from the unit’s center and ~1,700 ft above its median elevation — expect the unit to run warmer. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

20 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

18 bulls · 1 cows · 0 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 80 → 20

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

33% success

204 taken by 618 hunters · 4,231 days afield

174 bucks · 26 does · 4 fawns

NR 23% · Res 33% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 36% → 33%

FWP survey estimates per hunting district, split resident and nonresident. These are estimates from FWP's hunter survey rather than registration counts — its own column legend reads "Estimate of…" — and that holds even for the limited-permit species, so they are not the same quantity as a state that counts checked animals. Bighorn sheep, moose and mountain goat are numbered in their own district systems, separate from the deer and elk districts and using the same numbers for different ground, so each is shown on its own geography. FWP publishes per-district hunter and effort estimates for deer, sheep, moose and goat; elk and antelope pages show harvest and composition without a district-level success rate, because inventing one from statewide effort would be wrong at this grain. Success rates are derived as harvest ÷ hunters from FWP's own published columns wherever both are given. Source: FWP Harvest Estimates search (myfwp.mt.gov) · FWP Harvest Estimates CSV export (sheep, moose and goat).

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

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