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Unit research · Montana District 702

District 702 — Montana

12% public across 1,768,398 ac. Road access is easy — only 14% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 38,581 ac of public land has no public route in.

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2,350–4,790 ft

elevation range

12%

public land

14%

of public >1 mi from a road

38,581 ac

landlocked public

1.04

road miles per mi²

72 mi

maintained trails

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

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

One limited-entry elk hunt is drawn on District 702: apply in the Montana draw, by the agency's deadline below.

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) ↗

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

■ UNK 6%■ BLM 4%■ ARS 2%□ Private 88%

Unit area1,768,398 ac

Public land207,920 ac (12%)

Landlocked public38,581 ac (18.6%)

Elk draw pressure0.57 tags/mi² public (0.054 of total area)

Walk-in access138,361 ac

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)2,871 mi

Maintained trails72 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road29,781 ac (14% of public)

Road density1.04 mi/mi²

Managed byUNK 107k ac · BLM 65k ac · ARS 36k ac

Elevation2,350–4,790 ft

Median elevation3,100 ft

Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

2,350 ft4,790 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 27%

E 24%

S 25%

W 24%

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

409,178 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 FRANK WILEY FIELD AIRPORT, 77 km from the unit’s center and ~500 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

Harvest — agency survey estimates

Elk · 2025

263 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

99 bulls · 150 cows · 13 calves

Elk harvest · 2004–2025 · 36 → 263

Deer · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

51.7% success

900 taken by 1,740 hunters · 9,567 days afield

727 bucks · 170 does · 3 fawns

NR 68% · Res 46% success

Deer hunter success · 2004–2025 · 91% → 52%

Pronghorn · 2025

331 harvested

no district-level hunter estimate published

236 bucks · 95 does · 0 fawns

Pronghorn harvest · 2004–2025 · 492 → 331

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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