Units / Montana / District 313

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Unit research · Montana District 313

District 313 — Montana

86% public across 124,646 ac. Real backcountry here — 60% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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4,890–10,450 ft

elevation range

86%

public land

60%

of public >1 mi from a road

521 ac

landlocked public

0.55

road miles per mi²

109 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

4 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on District 313: 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 · 3 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) ↗

Montana deer and elk draw calendar

Sep 30, 2026 — point window closes
Sep 30, 2026 — point window closes

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

■ USFS 80%■ SFW 4%■ BLM 1%■ Other public 1%□ Private 14%

Unit area124,646 ac

Public land106,969 ac (86%)

Landlocked public521 ac (0.5%)

Deer draw pressure0.12 tags/mi² public (0.10 of total area)

Elk draw pressure0.90 tags/mi² public (0.77 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)107 mi

Maintained trails109 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road64,109 ac (60% of public)

Road density0.55 mi/mi²

Managed byUSFS 99k ac · SFW 5k ac · BLM 1k ac

Elevation4,890–10,450 ft

Median elevation7,660 ft

Median slope17°

Where the ground sits

4,890 ft10,450 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%

E 18%

S 26%

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

8,765 ac of this district has burned — 7% 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 MISSION FIELD AIRPORT, 65 km from the unit’s center and ~3,000 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

282 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

188 bulls · 91 cows · 2 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 521 → 282

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

30.6% success

248 taken by 810 hunters · 5,205 days afield

214 bucks · 34 does · 0 fawns

NR 54% · Res 25% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 54% → 31%

Pronghorn · 2025

5 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

3 bucks · 2 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2016–2025 · 10 → 5

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, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby districts

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