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District 590 — Montana

5% public hunting land across 1,868,395 ac. Road access is easy — only 11% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 16,243 ac of public land has no public route in.

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2,700–4,740 ft

elevation range

public hunting land

11%

of public >1 mi from a road

16,243 ac

landlocked public

1.37

road miles per mi²

20 mi

trails on public land

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry deer and elk hunts are drawn on District 590: 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) ↗

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

■ BLM 4%■ State wildlife 0%■ Wildlife refuge 0%▨ Parks & other public 5%□ Private 90%

Unit area1,868,395 ac

Public hunting land84,874 ac (5%)

Parks & other public101,445 ac · Unknown manager, Local government, City

Landlocked public16,243 ac (19.1%)

Deer draw pressure0.93 tags/mi² public (0.034 of total area)

Elk draw pressure3.5 tags/mi² public (0.13 of total area)

Walk-in access49,155 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)4,001 mi

Mapped trails on public land20 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road9,736 ac (11% of public)

Road density1.37 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 78k ac · State wildlife 5k ac · Wildlife refuge 2k ac

Elevation2,700–4,740 ft

Median elevation3,370 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

2,700 ft4,740 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 29%

E 23%

S 26%

W 22%

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

422,583 ac of this district has burned — 23% 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 BILLINGS LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 44 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

766 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

382 bulls · 376 cows · 8 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 357 → 766

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

44.2% success

1,734 taken by 3,919 hunters · 24,766 days afield

1,367 bucks · 359 does · 7 fawns

NR 47% · Res 44% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 63% → 44%

Pronghorn · 2021

235 harvested

no unit-level hunter count published

160 bucks · 75 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2004–2021 · 684 → 235

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 →

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