Welcome to the Hunter Education Incentive Partnership page

Partnership with onX

The Montana Office of Public Instruction is proud to partner with onX to encourage Montana students to embrace our outdoor heritage, prioritize safety, and live healthy, active lives. Montana’s public lands are among our greatest treasures. This effort highlights the importance of hunter education, which includes firearm safety, responsible outdoor practices, conservation principles. It also includes the importance of understanding private property, block management, and public land access, all of which onX helps support. By incentivizing participation in hunter safety courses, OPI and onX are working together to promote responsible recreation and healthy outdoor activity among the next generation of outdoorsmen and women.  Students ages 12–17 who have successfully completed a certified Montana hunter safety course are eligible to receive a free one-year onX Hunt Premium state membership.

Program Requirements

  • Students ages 12-17
  • Passing a full hunter education course within the last 12 months
  • Hunter's education certificate (retrieve certificate here)

If these requirements are met, the form below will direct applicants to the sign-up page.

Apply Here

 

Additional Resources

 

Message from the Superintendent

Montana’s outdoor heritage is one of our greatest traditions, passed down from generation to generation, as an avid outdoorswoman and hunter, myself, I know firsthand how time spent outdoors promotes both physical and mental health. 

This partnership reflects our shared commitment to raising healthy, confident young Montanans who understand safety, responsibility, and stewardship. I want to sincerely thank onX for being such a strong proponent of this effort. Their dedication to conservation and public land access helps us inspire students to get outside, be active, and develop a lifelong love for our great outdoors.

- Superintendent Hedalen

Superintendent Hedalen hunting, glassing an open range

 

OPI Staff are here to help:

McKenna Gregg, Communications Director, 406-475-5302