Hunting districts / Mountain goat
Mountain goat hunting district · Region 3 (Bozeman)
District 362
Montana hunting district 362 (Mountain goat), FWP Region 3 (Bozeman): 200 sq mi in Gallatin County; 97% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land (mostly Custer Gallatin National Forest); median elevation 8,212 ft; FWP estimated 4 goat harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the deepest snow right now of 15 mountain goat districts: 7 in at a SNOTEL station inside. NRCS SNOTEL (measured)
- Among the flattest of 37 mountain goat districts: 3,891 ft from low point to high point. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 96.7% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.6% |
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 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6 | 44 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6 | 37 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 6 | 36 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 5 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 6 | 39 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 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
- Gallatin County
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- Lee Metcalf Wilderness (25%)
- Wildlife management areas
- Gallatin
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- —
- Highest named summits
- Sage Peak (≈10,476 ft), Redstreak Peak (≈10,184 ft), White Peak (≈10,184 ft), Monument Mountain (≈10,039 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- None named in GNIS
- Towns and places
- Grayling, Lakeview
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.