This district sits south of Interstate 90 and east of Missoula. The Deerlodge National Forest and some Black Management Areas provide thousands of acres of public land access. Private ground in the northeast and southern sections requires permission to access.

Whitetails are typically found within a mile or two of Montana Route1 along Flint Creek on irrigated and dryland farms. Mature mule deer bucks like the ridges and slopes of the John Long Mountains during the summer and early fall. Once hunting season starts they head into the Upper Willow and the South Fork Lower Willow Creek drainage or towards the rolling shrub choked foothills west of Phippsburg. Elk typically travel in herds between Strawberry Mountain, Black Pine Ridge and Henderson Mountain based on weather and hunting pressure.