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District 215 — Montana

47% public hunting land across 370,737 ac. Road access is easy — only 11% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,340–8,570 ft

elevation range

47%

public hunting land

11%

of public >1 mi from a road

71 ac

landlocked public

1.85

road miles per mi²

48 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

3 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on District 215: 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 · 2 draw hunts (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) ↗

FWP license fees for 2026 (fee schedule PDF) ↗Draw odds for Montana deer →Draw odds for Montana elk →How the Montana draw works →

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 36%■ State wildlife 11%▨ Parks & other public 4%□ Private 49%

Unit area370,737 ac

Public hunting land175,192 ac (47%)

Parks & other public13,581 ac · Unknown manager, Local government, City

Landlocked public71 ac (0.0%)

Deer draw pressure0.27 tags/mi² public (0.13 of total area)

Elk draw pressure2.3 tags/mi² public (1.1 of total area)

Walk-in access21,804 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)1,070 mi

Mapped trails on public land48 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road20,006 ac (11% of public)

Road density1.85 mi/mi²

Managed byForest Service 134k ac · State wildlife 41k ac

Elevation4,340–8,570 ft

Median elevation5,880 ft

Median slope10°

Where the ground sits

4,340 ft8,570 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 19%

S 21%

W 35%

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 · Pro, $5 a month or $49 a year

3,316 ac of this district has burned — 1% 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

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

Measured at HELENA REGIONAL AIRPORT, 56 km from the unit’s center and ~2,000 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

346 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

215 bulls · 129 cows · 2 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 249 → 346

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

20.3% success

286 taken by 1,406 hunters · 10,882 days afield

233 bucks · 50 does · 4 fawns

NR 25% · Res 20% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 34% → 20%

Pronghorn · 2025

3 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

3 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2004–2025 · 19 → 3

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)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

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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