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Units / Montana / District 622

Same number, different ground: Sheep district 622

Unit research · Montana District 622

District 622 — Montana

74% public across 461,018 ac. Real backcountry here — 42% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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2,240–3,330 ft

elevation range

74%

public land

42%

of public >1 mi from a road

4,271 ac

landlocked public

0.62

road miles per mi²

0 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

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2 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on District 622: apply in the Montana draw, by the agency's deadline below.

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)

Montana elk draw calendar

  • 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

BLM 45%FWS 17%USACE 9%■ Other public 3%□ Private 26%
Unit area461,018 ac
Public land342,430 ac (74%)
Landlocked public4,271 ac (1.2%)
Elk draw pressure0.21 tags/mi² public (0.15 of total area)
Walk-in access65,499 ac
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)444 mi
Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road142,362 ac (42% of public)
Road density0.62 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 206k ac · FWS 80k ac · USACE 42k ac
Elevation2,240–3,330 ft
Median elevation2,570 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

2,240 ft3,330 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 24%
E 25%
S 26%
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

30,055 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

Monthly normal highs and lows, °F26° high9° lowJFMAMJJASOND

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

Measured at WOKAL FIELD/GLASGOW INTL AIRPORT, 90 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

102 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

52 bulls · 50 cows · 0 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 111 → 102

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

22.6% success

98 taken by 434 hunters · 2,493 days afield

87 bucks · 11 does · 0 fawns

NR 39% · Res 14% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 38% → 23%

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.

Nearby districts

District 62043% public · 17% remoteDistrict 70050% public · 45% remoteDistrict 63068% public · 25% remoteDistrict 62177% public · 40% remoteDistrict 41049% public · 21% remoteDistrict 67044% public · 37% remote

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