Beattie Gulch Special Permit

(Note: These Rules do not apply for hunting all of the Gardiner Basin, these rules Only apply for hunting within the Beattie Gulch Special Management Area)

Due to continued hunter and public safety concerns for hunter activity in Beattie Gulch, the MOU hunt agencies have agreed to manage their hunters to improve safety in the Beattie Gulch site with 5 hunters per agency each day or hunt period. Each participating government will be required to have a game warden present each day that they have their 5 hunters at the Beattie Gulch Special Permit Hunt Area and the warden will be acting as the lead person to direct their hunter’s activity and to coordinate with the other wardens/tribal hunters each day they hunt.

The selection process for CSKT hunters to be authorized for the special management hunt area will be conducted as follows:

If the CSKT warden has to leave the special hunt area during an active hunt, all Beattie Gulch special hunt area hunters will receive general direction from other participating agency game wardens in the absence of the CSKT warden.

CSKT Hunters are Not allowed to hunt the Beattie Gulch area, unless a game warden is present. However, CSKT hunters are allowed to hunt in other areas within the Gardiner Basin without CSKT game wardens present.

All CSKT hunters that have been issued their 2021-2022 Bison Permit will be eligible to apply for a Beattie Gulch Bison Hunt. If you are interested in signing up to hunt Beattie Gulch, contact the Permit office at (406)883-2888 ext. 7200. A drawing for the 5 hunters/day will be conducted on the first Thursday in November and names will be selected to fill designated hunt days. Hunt days can occur anytime bison are present in the Beattie Gulch area starting in November, until the end of our season, which ends January 31st.

During the hunt season, If selected hunters do not show up to the Beattie Gulch trail head parking area at 7 am on the day of their drawn hunt, the CSKT warden may select an alternate hunter from available hunters in the field that day. We will not hold your spot! The alternate hunters will be selected on site (Beattie Gulch Trailhead) on a first come basis, starting at 7 am the day of each scheduled hunt day by the CSKT warden on duty for the hunt.

CSKT hunters must sign up each year, if they are interested in hunting Beattie Gulch. They will be limited to one day each until all applicants have also drawn at least one day. Once all entered hunters have one draw, hunters would then be eligible for a second hunt authorization day with the same process as the first drawing. Hunters may also put in for a non-scheduled hunt day draw that would occur only when bison are known to be available to hunt in Beattie Gulch and there is a warden available for hunt day. On those days, five hunters would be drawn and contacted on the immediate availability of bison that day or for the next day as planned by the respective hunters.