A group of cow elk. (Courtesy Glacier National Park)

State officials report mixed hunting results across Montana as the general deer and elk season ended on Nov. 30, according to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Montana FWP collects data through check stations and reports back success rate and numbers relating to animals taken.

In northeastern Montana, hunter numbers were in line with long-term averages, but distributed differently than they had been in the past.

“Hunter numbers at the check station were up 27% at the beginning of the season after antelope and pheasant season opened, but down 15% during the general deer and elk season,” Scott Hemmer, a Havre-area biologist said in an FWP press release. “Most notably, deer hunter numbers were down 11% from last year a

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