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Unit research · Montana District 700

District 700 — Montana

50% public across 1,786,291 ac. Real backcountry here — 45% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Almost none of the public land is landlocked.

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2,220–3,390 ft

elevation range

50%

public land

45%

of public >1 mi from a road

25,762 ac

landlocked public

0.76

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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3 limited-entry elk hunts are drawn on District 700: apply in the Montana draw, by the agency's deadline below.

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 elk draw calendar

Sep 30, 2026 — point window closes

FWP license fees for 2026 (fee schedule PDF) ↗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 21%■ USACE 21%■ FWS 6%■ Other public 3%□ Private 50%

Unit area1,786,291 ac

Public land887,671 ac (50%)

Landlocked public25,762 ac (2.9%)

Elk draw pressure0.92 tags/mi² public (0.45 of total area)

Walk-in access175,497 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,130 mi

Maintained trails0 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road396,693 ac (45% of public)

Road density0.76 mi/mi²

Managed byBLM 373k ac · USACE 366k ac · FWS 101k ac

Elevation2,220–3,390 ft

Median elevation2,710 ft

Median slope3°

Where the ground sits

2,220 ft3,390 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 27%

E 24%

S 23%

W 27%

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

403,654 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 WOKAL FIELD/GLASGOW INTL AIRPORT, 90 km from the unit’s center. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

588 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

297 bulls · 279 cows · 12 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 252 → 588

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

45.9% success

1,495 taken by 3,259 hunters · 23,783 days afield

1,092 bucks · 395 does · 8 fawns

NR 59% · Res 41% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 90% → 46%

Pronghorn · 2025

1,052 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

793 bucks · 252 does · 7 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2004–2025 · 2,239 → 1,052

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)
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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.

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