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The
Missouri Breaks is a stunningly beautiful and remote area
that few people who visit Montana ever see - unless they
are hunting trophy bull elk. The Missouri Breaks is a vast
area of rolling hills, buttes,
rock outcroppings,
scattered forests and massive prairie flats that surround
the Missouri River. This huge area really has no clearly
defined border. But, as a rough guide, the Missouri Breaks
area lies to the east of Fort
Benton, to the north of Winnett and
to the south and west of Fort
Peck Lake.
The
Missouri Breaks area is exceptionally remote, even by Montana
standards. Much of the Missouri Breaks area is completely
uninhabited as it lies within the Charles Russell Wildlife
Refuge. And the part of the breaks area that is outside
of the refuge consists of scattered ranches and sizable
blocks of BLM lands. In short, if you want to be alone,
the Missouri Breaks area is a very fine place to go.
The
Missouri Breaks is famous for its' superb hunting. And,
indeed, hunting is how I first came across this remote
region of Montana. The elk hunting in the Missouri Breaks
is legendary for trophy bull elk. Each year, about 75 lucky
hunters draw a permit to hunt the trophy elk that reside
in the areas draws, forests and plains. Other lucky hunters,
like me in 2004, are able to procure a cow permit which
allows for hunting of antlerless elk. And while I came
away skunked in my hunting trip to the breaks in 2004 -
the trip was hardly a waste - as I came back having explored
a new region of Montana that is beautiful, remote and truly
wild.
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