Hunting districts / Black bear
Black bear hunting district · Region 5 (Billings)
District 510
Montana hunting district 510 (Black bear), FWP Region 5 (Billings): 616 sq mi in Carbon County; 64% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 4,688 ft.
What stands out
- Among the smallest of 35 black bear districts: 616 square miles. FWP district boundary
Publicly administered land
| Bureau of Land Management | 41.6% | |
| US Forest Service | 19.1% | |
| National Park Service | 6.7% | |
| Montana state trust land | 3.5% |
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.
Landscape
- Counties
- Carbon County
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- —
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Pryor Mountains
- Highest named summits
- East Pryor Mountain (≈8,796 ft), Big Pryor Mountain (≈8,780 ft), Red Pryor Mountain (≈8,409 ft), Black Butte (≈5,092 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Bobcat Pass, Hatcher Pass
- Towns and places
- Belfry, Bowler, Dryhead (historical), Golden (historical), Hillsboro, Wade, Warren
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.