Montana Mountain Lion · Hunting District 319

Montana Hunting District 319 covers 397,284 acres and lies 12 miles south-east of Anaconda and 31 miles south-east of Philipsburg. 78% of it is public land, mostly national forest (54%) and state land (17%). In 2025, hunters took 4 mountain lion here; hunter counts not published.

Tags
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0 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
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not published

Public Land
78%

54% Forest Service

Size
621 mi²

397,284 acres

Anaconda Butte 319

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 319 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 4
2024 1
2023 5
2022 5
2021 3
2020 3
2019 1
2018 3
2017 1
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3

2025 split: nonresidents 0, residents 4

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 214,533 ac 54%
Private 86,329 ac 22%
State land 66,306 ac 17%
BLM 21,254 ac 5%
State trust land 6,594 ac 2%
County or city land 1,668 ac <1%
Other public 39 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%

Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….

▸ Sources 14
  1. Montana FWP 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  2. Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  3. Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  4. Montana FWP 2022 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  5. Montana FWP 2021 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  6. Montana FWP 2020 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  7. Montana FWP 2019 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  8. Montana FWP 2018 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  9. Montana FWP 2017 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  10. Montana FWP 2016 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  11. Montana FWP 2015 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  12. Montana FWP 2014 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  13. Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Lion Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  14. 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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We don't take applications: check Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Montana mountain lion hunts