Hunting districts / Mountain goat
Mountain goat hunting district · Region 3 (Bozeman)
District 320
Montana hunting district 320 (Mountain goat), FWP Region 3 (Bozeman): 833 sq mi in Madison, Jefferson counties; 46% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land (mostly Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest); median elevation 5,958 ft; FWP estimated 4 goat harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the deepest snow right now of 15 mountain goat districts: 6 in at a SNOTEL station inside. NRCS SNOTEL (measured)
- Among the largest of 37 mountain goat districts: 833 square miles. FWP district boundary
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 33.0% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 8.1% | |
| Montana state trust land | 4.7% | |
| City & county | 0.2% | |
| Other State of Montana | 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.
Goat harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Billies | Nannies | Kids |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 53 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 5 | 49 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5 | 39 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 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. Boundaries of a numbered district can change between years.
Landscape
- Counties
- Madison, Jefferson counties
- National forests
- Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- —
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Tobacco Root Mountains
- Highest named summits
- Hollowtop Mountain (≈10,505 ft), Granite Peak (≈10,479 ft), Mount Jefferson (≈10,308 ft), Lonesome Peak (≈10,302 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Mustard Pass, Low Pass, Spuhler Saddle, Windy Pass, Tom Graham Pass
- Towns and places
- Adobe (historical), Brandon, Harrison, Iron Rod (historical), Junction, Leiterville, Mammoth, McAllister, Norris, Piedmont, Pony, Renova, Ruby, Shaws
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.
Neighboring districts
- HD 331 50% public · 6,631 ft median
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.