Hunting districts / Moose
Moose hunting district · Region 3 (Bozeman)
District 343
Montana hunting district 343 (Moose), FWP Region 3 (Bozeman): 433 sq mi in Lewis And Clark County; 40% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 5,144 ft; FWP estimated 1 moose harvested in 2024.
What stands out
- Among the most Block Management of 74 moose districts: 11 BMAs, about 84,214 acres. FWP Block Management (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 24.2% | |
| Montana state trust land | 7.3% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 6.9% | |
| Montana FWP | 1.2% | |
| Other State of Montana | 0.7% |
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.
Moose harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Bulls | Cows | Calves |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
- Lewis And Clark County
- National forests
- Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Canyon Creek
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- General Robert E Lee Range (not official)
- Highest named summits
- Granite Butte (≈7,536 ft), Greenhorn Mountain (≈7,490 ft), Mount Belmont (≈7,287 ft), Mitchell Mountain (≈6,919 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Stemple Pass, Priest Pass
- Towns and places
- Atlantic City (historical), Austin, Belmont (historical), Blue Cloud (historical), Canyon Creek, Forest Heights, Frontier Town, Gloster, Marysville, Sieben, Silver City, Skyline, Strom, Trinity (historical)
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.