Fort Peck Dam has bumped up its releases to 17,000 cubic feet per second as high inflows have pushed the reservoir level up 3 feet in two weeks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

FORT PECK RESERVOIR — King salmon is not a species commonly associated with Montana, but after Jim Fauth reeled in a new state record on Aug. 8 — a 32.65-pounder that narrowly edged out the ...

Fort Peck Dam releases averaged 8,900 cfs in June. Releases were cut from 9,000 to 7,000 cfs in early July.

"Under the Fort Peck Management Plan, we were supposed to be stocking lake trout to add to the natural reproduction since the reservoir dropped below 2,225 (feet in elevation) in the fall.

As a result, Fort Peck Reservoir's elevation is 4 feet lower than it was at this time last year and 9 feet lower than in 2019. Despite the lower water levels, the Corps will drop the lake's level ...

The Life magazine article, an eight-page spread on Fort Peck Dam in the first issue of Life, was published on Nov. 23, 1936. It depicted the boomtowns as the Wild West, and some folks in the area ...

Wildlife officials said Fort Peck Lake is the only body of water in the state where anglers can catch Chinook salmon. About 200,000 fish are stocked in the reservoir every spring.

As of Wednesday, the lake level was 2,198.4 and Fort Peck has been dropping at the rate of about an inch a day - a steady drain of just under one-tenth of a foot every 24 hours.

Perhaps the difference from 1933 to 2009, from a Fort Peck Dam to a current freeway interchange, was that Roosevelt’s Depression-era stimulus spending was so very obvious.