I was talking to Randy Matchett, a wildlife biologist at the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, and he passed along these photos of some of the high water on Fort Peck Reservoir and the ...

In anticipation of the test flows, dam operators have been holding back more water than usual at Fort Peck Reservoir, building the lake's elevation up to 2,231 feet.

When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has partially opened two of the Fort Peck Dam’s spillway gates to relieve the rising water level in the reservoir.

Major Clark Kittrell, No. 2 man on the Fort Peck Dam project. Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Caption from LIFE. Drinking in Ed's Place, Montana, 1936.

FORT PECK (AP) — Looming above the plain like a great grassy green berm, Fort Peck Dam has impounded more Missouri River water this spring than ever before — enough ...