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Moose hunting district · Region 5 (Billings)
District 513
Montana hunting district 513 (Moose), FWP Region 5 (Billings): 662 sq mi in Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Carbon counties; 64% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land (mostly Custer Gallatin National Forest); median elevation 6,867 ft; FWP estimated 2 moose harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the most wilderness of 74 moose districts: 40% designated wilderness. USFS wilderness boundaries (calculated)
- Among the most rugged of 74 moose districts: 8,327 ft from low point to high point. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 61.7% | |
| Montana state trust land | 1.3% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 0.9% | |
| Montana FWP | 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.
Moose harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Bulls | Cows | Calves |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3 | 68 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 47 | 3 | 3 | 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
- Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Carbon counties
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (40%)
- Wildlife management areas
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- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Granite Range
- Highest named summits
- Mount Wood (≈12,454 ft), Mount Hague (≈12,287 ft), Pyramid Mountain (≈11,991 ft), Twin Peaks (≈11,703 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Jordan Pass
- Towns and places
- Beehive, Dean, Fishtail, Limestone, Meyers Creek, Mouat (historical), Mountain View, Nye
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.