Put the good folks at Paws Up to work for you on the licensing questions. One of their good employees nearly ran me off the road last weekend. I was camping and scouting in the mountains near their spread. Appears to me there are good numbers of bear in there, even for MT. I saw one which stood on its hind legs to check me out. Never saw that before. Saw lots of tracks and poop (yes son, bears do indeed crap in the woods)!