Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission on Dec. 4, 2025, adopted a handful of new deer hunting regulations aimed at reducing hunting pressure on public land and bringing the state’s flagging mule deer population out of a multiyear decline. During an eight-hour meeting in Helena, the commission voted to reduce available nonresident deer hunter licenses by about 2,500 licenses, cap the total number of deer a Montana hunter can kill in a season at three, and reined in the number of does both resident and nonresident hunters can harvest on public land.