Montana Elk — Hunting District 446

Montana Hunting District 446 covers 380,272 acres and lies 19 miles north-west of White Sulphur Springs and 28 miles north-east of Townsend. 23% of it is public land, mostly national forest (15%) and state trust land (7%). In 2025, hunters took 294 elk here.

Public land:23% Size:380,272 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 446 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunting District 446 within Montana

Hunting District 446 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

Private 292,429 ac · 77%
National Forest 57,915 ac · 15%
State trust land 25,059 ac · 7%
BLM 3,308 ac · 1%
State land 1,369 ac · 0%
County or city land 114 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those.