If the webcams don’t come up below, use these links: West Yellowstone Area Webcam Gardiner Area Webcam
Webcam at Gardiner, near Electric Peak
Webcam at West Yellowstone along a trailhead near the Park boundary
Emergency Contact Information
Tribal Game Wardens will patrol the hunt area and assist in the enforcement of all applicable hunting and hunter laws. Wardens will also respond to bison hunt emergencies. Hunters may also contact the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Dispatch (for areas west of Yellowstone National Park) or the Park County Sheriff’s Dispatch (for areas north of Yellowstone National Park) in the event of an emergency.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will not direct hunters to the location of bison in the field or assist with the field dressing and retrieval of bison.
Tribal Game Warden Information:
Dan McClure, Chief
Brandon Couture, Sergeant
Willie Burke, Sergeant
Paden Alexander
Darwin Parker
Tom Haynes
Garrett Fenton
TR3 (406) 241-3345
TR4
TR5
TR6
TR7
TR8
TR9
Tribal Game Warden Office Number: 883-2888 ext. 7270
Other Emergency Contacts:
1-800-TIP-MONT --- 1-800-847-6668
Hebgen Lake Ranger District 406-823-6961
Gallatin County Sheriff’s Dispatch: 406-582-2124
Gardiner Ranger District 406-848-7376
Park County Sheriff’s Dispatch: 406-222-4172
The Division of Fish, Wildlife, Recreation and Conservation is open Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Bison hunt hot line
For updated bison availability from the field, call the bison hunt information hot line at 406-275-2848.
Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes
Off-Reservation Bison Hunt
Latest Update as of 9-15-21
Yellowstone Bison Hunt
September 2021 through January 2022
Updates, Reminders and Revised Regulations
This is a Treaty Hunt and bad choices made by individuals and their actions can jeopardize our Treaty Rights and the bison hunt for other Tribes and the State as well. During the past bison hunt seasons, numerous incidents and violations have occurred with hunters. Be advised that the Crow Tribe will now start hunting, making your awareness more critical. Please carefully review these main regulations and updates:
- default_titleAny hunter convicted of violating any CSKT Tribal or Federal law, when engaged in the Yellowstone Bison Hunt, will lose their respective bison hunting privileges for a minimum of one year and may be revoked for additional years depending upon the violation. Additionally, no hunter shall be eligible for a permit for the bison hunt season until all outstanding citations for violations of prior Yellowstone Bison Hunts have been resolved, including fulfillment of all sanctions imposed upon the hunter by the Tribal Court and/or Tribal Council.
- default_titleThis is a Bison targeted hunt, please refrain from taking other species near the Park, especially Moose or Elk (State has limited or closed most of it’s hunting of Moose near the Park due to extreme low numbers).
- default_titleTribal Council authorized two hunt permits per hunter if needed, but you must have the capacity to care for what you harvest or you will lose that privilege.
- default_titlePlease harvest bull bison only in West Yellowstone.
- default_titleYou can only hunt on Forest Service property, know your hunt location and Forest Service use regulations for motorized use (off-roading, snowmobiling & ATVs): Forest Service enforces a 150 yard no shooting zone surrounding any developed facilities or sites and a safe food storage standards in bear country (no gut piles within 200 yards of roads and facilities until December 1st).
- default_titleForest Service closed lands east of highway 191 and north the town of West Yellowstone to all shooting and other lands above the town of Gardiner and the road side buffer zone at Beattie Gulch have no shooting restrictions.
- default_titleDo not leave a downed bison unattended or leave gut plies on or next to open roads (cut stomach (rumen) open when departing to spread/lower gut pile). There is a small 200 yard clean and no shooting zone area (no gut piles) from the Yellowstone Trail Road east into Beattie Gulch area.
- default_titleIt is illegal to snowmobile without a groomed trail permit and on public roads open to wheeled (cars) traffic, other than in the town site of West Yellowstone.
- default_titleCooperate with all law enforcement officers, stop at hunter checkpoints, and help other hunters in the field when possible.
- default_titleAll Gardiner Basin hunters need to know the Beattie Gulch Special Permit Hunt Area and regulations (map and special rules are posted on area kiosk).
- default_titleCall our Fish, Wildlife, Recreation and Conservation Office (883-2888, ext. 7299) for updates before you go and after harvesting a bison, the hunt report card must be turned into the office within 7 days.
- default_titleThe world is always watching you, act accordingly. Non-CSKT members must be clear of you while you are engaged in the taking (shooting) of a Bison.
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Gardiner Bison Hunt Restriction for 2021-22 Hunt Season
BEATTIE GULCH SPECIAL PERMIT HUNT AREA
2021 to 2022 Season
Gardiner Bison Hunt Restriction for 2021-22 Hunt Season
(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:
- default_titleCSKT 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.
- default_titleAll 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.
- default_titleDuring 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.
- default_titleCSKT 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.
- default_titleIf 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.
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Common Hunt Protocols for Beattie Gulch
Welcome to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’
Off-Reservation Bison Hunt Web-Based Orientation.
We encourage you to read the materials on every page
of this website and watch the Powerpoint.
Remember, this is a Treaty Hunt. Bad choices made by you or another individual in your group can jeopardize our Tribes’ treaty rights and those of other tribes as well. So it is crucial that you hunt in an ethical way and abide by all Tribal, state and federal regulations governing hunting, camping, and any other activities you are engaged in. As you go through the materials on this website, if you find material you want to print a hard copy of to refer to later, just click on the printer icon () at the bottom of each page.
