White-tailed deer harvest has increased at Darby in recent years, and ended with 86 whitetails checked, up 15 percent from the five-year average. Mild weather particularly impacts elk harvest, prompting elk to tend to stay in higher elevations and inaccessible areas, and making it much more difficult for hunters to track animals without snow.ДЄccordingly, elk harvest lagged region-wide this season.ДЄs usual, the hunter check station near Darby was the regional leader in elk harvest with 133 elk checked, which was 15.6 percent below the five-year average for the station. Meanwhile, snow accumulations, even in the regionвЂ™s high elevations, lagged far behind average, and unseasonably warm air temperatures dominated, even topping out in the low 60s on the last few days of the season. This compares to 10,717 hunter stops, 235 elk, 90 mule deer and 540 white-tailed deer in the 2020 season. In the six weekends of the season, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks operated wildlife check stations in four locations around west-central Montana, where biologists recorded 10,216 hunter stops and a harvest of 192 elk, 109 mule deer and 513 white-tailed deer.

28, with the four west-central Montana wildlife check stations reporting overall hunter activity and harvest totals down just slightly from last season, despite extra mild November weather.

The 2021 general big game hunting season closed Sunday, Nov.

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