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Fort Peck Dam

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Fort Peck Dam, 21,430 ft (6,531 m) long and 250 ft (76 m) high, on the Missouri River, NE Mont.; one of the world's largest earth-filled dams. The dam was built (1933–40) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a flood-control and navigation-improvement project. In 1944 it became part of the Missouri River basin project Missouri River basin project, comprehensive plan authorized in 1944 for the coordinated development of water resources of the Missouri River and its tributaries, draining an area of c.
..... Click the link for more information.  and is used for irrigation and the generation of hydroelectricity.

Fort Peck Lake, 189 mi (304 km) long, is one of the largest artificial lakes in the United States and an important recreation area of the N Great Plains.
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Think Margaret Bourke-White and her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam on the cover of the first Life magazine.
THE WORKING LIFE by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Bourke-White's photograph of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana is on the very first cover.
Margaret Bourke-White: photojournalist: how one daring woman became ... by Brown, Bryan / Junior Scholastic
Extending 125 miles up the Missouri River from the Fort Peck Dam in north-central Montana, the CMR is approximately 1,100,000 acres in size and includes the 245,000-acre Fort Peck Reservoir.
Refuge bucks and bulls: looking to expand your bowhunting ... by Breen, Tracy / Petersen's Bowhunting
 
 
 
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