State foraging calendar

Montana Foraging Calendar

Montana offers foraging across three starkly different landscapes: the rugged Northern Rockies forests of the west, the Yellowstone country of the south-central mountains, and the vast northern Great Plains grasslands of the east. The western mountains are among the most productive huckleberry and chanterelle habitats in the country, and the growing frequency of forest fires has dramatically expanded morel habitat across millions of acres of recovering forest. Bison-era prairie foraging for serviceberries, chokecherries, and wild plums persists along the breaks and river coulees of eastern Montana. Much of the state is public land managed by the US Forest Service, BLM, and National Park Service, with generally permissive personal-use foraging rules.

3 bioregions across Montana