The print

This is a high-quality print of a hand-drawn map on premium card stock - a thick (80 lb) card stock with a smooth, neutral white surface. Like a business card, but the size of a standard sheet of paper.

Note from the artist

This is the silhouette version of the Fort Peck Lake map. With this one, I removed all the roads, rivers, coulees, and draws, leaving only the silhouette of the lake in view. This is more of a piece of artwork than a map.

Once the railroads reached Montana in 1880, commercial and passenger boat traffic up the Missouri River slowed. During the Great Depression in 1933, President Roosevelt constructed a dam along the Missouri River in Montana for flood control and job creation. The result is the iconic shape you see today.

Fort Peck Lake lies in a 1.1 million-acre (445,154-hectare) protected natural region called the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge – the remnants of a wild prairie habitat that once covered a quarter of the United States. This area has remained almost undisturbed since the Lewis and Clark expedition passed through in 1805.