Hunting districts / Moose
Moose hunting district · Region 7 (Miles City)
District 700
Montana hunting district 700 (Moose), FWP Region 7 (Miles City): 29,816 sq mi in Garfield, Rosebud, Custer, Carter counties; 22% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 2,953 ft; FWP estimated 1 moose harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the most Block Management of 74 moose districts: 254 BMAs, about 1,911,615 acres. FWP Block Management (calculated)
- Among the most private of 74 moose districts: 22% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land. MSL Public Lands (calculated)
- Among the largest of 74 moose districts: 29,816 square miles. FWP district boundary
- Among the lowest of 74 moose districts: median elevation 2,953 ft. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
- Among the flattest of 74 moose districts: 2,789 ft from low point to high point. AWS Terrain Tiles (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| Bureau of Land Management | 13.1% | |
| Montana state trust land | 6.2% | |
| US Forest Service | 2.8% | |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 1.2% | |
| Other federal | 0.3% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.1% | |
| City & county | 0.1% | |
| Other State of Montana | 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 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 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
- Garfield, Rosebud, Custer, Carter counties
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Fox Lake, Isaac Homestead, Seven Sisters, Elk Island, Amelia Island
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Big Sheep Mountains, Black Buttes, Blue Mountains, Ekalaka Hills, Flattops, Humbolt Hills, Little Wolf Mountains, Long Pines, Piney Buttes, The Pine Hills
- Highest named summits
- Horn Mountain (≈4,734 ft), Eagle Nest Peak (≈4,551 ft), Buffalo Jump (≈4,537 ft), Half Moon Hill (≈4,455 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Suicide Pass, Camps Pass, Trenk Pass, Griffin Pass, Muggins Gap, Tindall Divide
- Towns and places
- Ahles, Albion, Albright (historical), Alice (historical), Allard, Allen (historical), Alzada, Anad (historical), Angela, Ashland, Baker, Bascom, Bay Horse, Beaver Flats (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.
Neighboring districts
- HD 600 27% public · 2,612 ft median
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.