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Moose hunting district · Region 4 (Great Falls)

District 422

Montana hunting district 422 (Moose), FWP Region 4 (Great Falls): 785 sq mi in Lewis And Clark County; 54% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land (mostly Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest); median elevation 5,184 ft; FWP estimated 1 moose harvested in 2025.

FWP district boundary, 2026 regulations. A boundary on a map does not grant access to any land inside it.
Area785 sq mi
USFS · BLM · state trust · FWP54%
Median elevation5,184 ft
Elevation range3,973–8,825 ft

Publicly administered land

US Forest Service41.5%
Montana state trust land7.4%
Montana FWP3.2%
Bureau of Land Management2.1%
Other federal0.9%

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

YearHuntersDaysTotal HarvestBullsCowsCalves
20251121100
2024111100
2023131100
2022000000

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
Scapegoat Wilderness (15%), Bob Marshall Wilderness (5%)
Wildlife management areas
Sun River
Mountain ranges (GNIS)
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Highest named summits
Scapegoat Mountain (≈9,091 ft), Flint Mountain (≈8,983 ft), Caribou Peak (≈8,622 ft), Crown Mountain (≈8,238 ft)
Passes and gaps
Straight Creek Pass, Elbow Pass, Lewis and Clark Pass, Welcome Pass, Elk Pass, Elbow Gorge
Towns and places
Augusta, Clemons (historical), Frost (historical), Gilman, La Chapelle Place, Lower Ellis Place, Packers, Racine Ford (historical), Split Rock Junction, Stoner Place, Upper Ellis Place

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 280 100% public · 6,739 ft median
  • HD 293 63% public · 5,604 ft median

Sources

Live weather, snow, fire and access conditions are in the atlas card for this district.