Hunting districts / Moose
Moose hunting district · Region 5 (Billings)
District 514
Montana hunting district 514 (Moose), FWP Region 5 (Billings): 1,786 sq mi in Carbon, Yellowstone, Stillwater counties; 27% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 4,482 ft; FWP estimated 3 moose harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the most private of 74 moose districts: 27% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land. MSL Public Lands (calculated)
- Among the most rugged of 74 moose districts: 9,252 ft from low point to high point. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
- Among the largest of 74 moose districts: 1,786 square miles. FWP district boundary
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 18.9% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 5.2% | |
| Montana state trust land | 3.1% | |
| City & county | 0.3% | |
| Other State of Montana | 0.1% | |
| 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 | 3 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 25 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4 | 92 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6 | 104 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 4 | 40 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6 | 71 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 6 | 49 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6 | 66 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 6 | 30 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 4 | 51 | 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
- Carbon, Yellowstone, Stillwater counties
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (12%)
- Wildlife management areas
- Silver Run
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Beartooth Mountains
- Highest named summits
- Castle Mountain (≈12,516 ft), Silver Run Peak (≈12,369 ft), Tempest Mountain (≈12,343 ft), Mount Peal (≈12,303 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Sundance Pass, Missouri Cutoff
- Towns and places
- Absarokee, Alex Boggio Place, Alpine, Bearcreek, Boyd, Bridger, Caledonia (historical), Chance, Cherry Springs (historical), Coalville (historical), Eagle (historical), Edgar, Fox, Fromberg
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.