Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 4 (Great Falls)
District 444
Montana hunting district 444 (Antelope), FWP Region 4 (Great Falls): 1,346 sq mi in Teton, Lewis And Clark, Cascade counties; 18% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 4,311 ft; FWP estimated 92 antelope harvested in 2025.
Publicly administered land
| Montana state trust land | 13.0% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 2.7% | |
| Other federal | 2.6% | |
| Montana FWP | 2.5% | |
| US Forest Service | 0.1% |
Area of Montana State Library 'Montana Public Lands' polygons (derived from the Montana Cadastral Framework, Department of Revenue ownership records) intersected with the FWP district boundary, measured in NAD83(2011) Montana State Plane (EPSG:6514). Ownership is not access: some public land is closed to hunting or has no legal access.
Antelope harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Bucks | Does | Fawns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | n/e | n/e | 92 | 65 | 27 | 0 |
| 2024 | 214 | 937 | 102 | 66 | 36 | 0 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 94 | 60 | 31 | 2 |
| 2022 | 161 | 698 | 61 | 38 | 23 | 0 |
| 2021 | n/e | n/e | 106 | 75 | 29 | 2 |
| 2020 | 206 | 692 | 114 | 83 | 31 | 0 |
| 2019 | n/e | n/e | 92 | 53 | 37 | 2 |
| 2018 | 183 | 569 | 100 | 63 | 37 | 0 |
| 2017 | n/e | n/e | 110 | 73 | 38 | 0 |
| 2016 | n/e | n/e | 79 | 48 | 31 | 0 |
| 2015 | 214 | 919 | 94 | 48 | 44 | 2 |
| 2014 | 207 | 669 | 100 | 55 | 45 | 0 |
FWP estimates from the annual hunter harvest survey; they carry sampling error. "n/e": FWP did not estimate district-level hunter numbers that year (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025). Boundaries of a numbered district can change between years.
Landscape
- Counties
- Teton, Lewis And Clark, Cascade counties
- National forests
- —
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Sun River, Freezout Lake, Ear Mountain
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- —
- Highest named summits
- Ear Mountain (≈8,307 ft), Roost Hill (≈6,722 ft), Haystack Butte (≈6,654 ft), Sheep Mountain (≈6,591 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Cadotte Pass
- Towns and places
- Ashuelot, Augusta, Choteau, Choteau Junction, Clemons (historical), Gilman, Golden Ridge, La Chapelle Place, Lower Ellis Place, Lowry, Milford Colony, Olson Place, Racine Ford (historical), Riebeling
Elevations sampled on a regular grid inside the district from AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium, zoom 10, ~105 m pixels; compiled from USGS 3DEP and SRTM). Approximate: summits read lower than their surveyed height.
Sources
- District boundary: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks hunting district layer.
- Public land: Montana State Library, Montana Public Lands (published 2026-10-06).
- Harvest: FWP Harvest Estimates, retrieved 2026-10-30.
- Places: USGS Geographic Names Information System. Wilderness and forests: USDA Forest Service.
- Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles (USGS 3DEP, SRTM).
Live weather, snow, fire and access conditions are in the atlas card for this district.