HD 413 covers the northern Hi-Line country around Havre—the Milk River corridor, the Sage Creek and Big Sandy Creek drainages, and the rolling dryland-wheat prairie running up to the Canadian border. Elevations run from about 2,400 feet on the Milk River bottom near Havre to 3,500 feet on the higher prairie ridges and the Sweet Grass Hills foothills creeping into the western edge. The country is open: dryland wheat, summer-fallow, CRP grass, native bunchgrass-and-sage prairie, with cottonwood-and-willow corridors along the Milk, Big Sandy Creek, and Sage Creek. The Sweet Grass Hills—a series of three isolated buttes near the border (Mount Royal, Mount Brown, the Gold Butte)—poke up out of the prairie on the western fringe and hold a small pocket of timbered country and surprising mule deer. Whitetail concentrate in the Milk River bottom and the irrigated patches; mule deer use the breaks and the Sweet Grass Hills timber; pronghorn work the open dryland in good numbers. Almost all private ranchland and farms, with Rocky Boy Reservation creeping in on the south edge (tribal regs apply), scattered DNRC state sections, and small BLM tracts in the Sweet Grass Hills foothills. Block Management is critical. US-2 east-west, US-87 south, MT-232 to the Sweet Grass Hills, and the section road grid handle access. Havre has full services—gas, hospital, motels, MSU-Northern, the Great Northern Inn, restaurants. Cell service holds along US-2 and around Havre and weakens on the back roads. Whitetail along the Milk during the rut and pronghorn on the dryland flats are the headline hunts; the Sweet Grass Hills mule deer hunt is a quiet sleeper if you can get permission.