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Units / Montana / District 214

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Unit research · Montana · District 214

District 214 — Montana

53% public hunting land across 74,352 ac. Real backcountry here — 30% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. No landlocked public land.

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5,090–10,570 ft

elevation range

53%

public hunting land

30%

of public >1 mi from a road

1 ac

landlocked public

1.51

road miles per mi²

18 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Tags: check Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

No draw hunts are published for this district. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's regulations.

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) ↗

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

■ Forest Service 39%■ State wildlife 14%▨ Parks & other public 5%□ Private 42%
Unit area74,352 ac
Public hunting land39,467 ac (53%)
Parks & other public3,374 ac · Local government, Unknown manager
Landlocked public1 ac (0.0%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)175 mi
Mapped trails on public land18 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road11,831 ac (30% of public)
Road density1.51 mi/mi²
Managed byForest Service 29k ac · State wildlife 11k ac
Elevation5,090–10,570 ft
Median elevation7,290 ft
Median slope14°

Where the ground sits

5,090 ft10,570 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 38%
E 31%
S 15%
W 16%

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 →

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153 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, °F33° high16° lowJFMAMJJASOND

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

Measured at HELENA REGIONAL AIRPORT, 101 km from the unit’s center and ~3,400 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

25 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

22 bulls · 4 cows · 0 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 58 → 25

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

20.3% success

73 taken by 360 hunters · 2,384 days afield

55 bucks · 18 does · 0 fawns

NR 0% · Res 22% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 21% → 20%

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, tell us at support@openhuntmaps.com — the fix ships for everyone.

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