Montana Mountain Lion · Hunting District 317
Montana Hunting District 317 covers 272,262 acres and lies 19 miles south of Livingston and 32 miles south-east of Bozeman. 67% of it is public land, mostly national forest (63%) and BLM (2%). In 2025, hunters took 2 mountain lion here; hunter counts not published.
0 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
not published
63% Forest Service
272,262 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a mountain lion license in Hunting District 317 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it; the Montana mountain lion hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
Harvest
| Year | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 |
2025 split: nonresidents 0, residents 2
What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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. Source: Montana FWP 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest; Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest; Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest.
The Ground
| National Forest | 170,981 ac | 63% |
| Private | 90,663 ac | 33% |
| BLM | 5,173 ac | 2% |
| State trust land | 4,301 ac | 2% |
| County or city land | 980 ac | <1% |
| State land | 54 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
▸ Sources 14
- Montana FWP 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2022 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2021 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2020 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2019 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2018 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2017 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2016 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2015 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2014 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Lion Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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Prior-draw odds from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Montana mountain lion hunts