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Fishing at Charles M. Russell NWR

Western artist Charles M. Russell (1864 - 1926) painted nearly 4,000 works of art in his lifetime, many of them set in the Judith River country of his beloved Montana, where he also became a noted writer, conservationist, and advocate of the Northern Plains Indians. His legacy is embodied in the sprawling Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, an 1.1-million-acre tract along 125 miles of the Missouri River that also encompasses the 245,000-acre Fort Peck Reservoir. It is a region of vast native prairie, forested coulees, and badlands that formed the backdrops for much of Russell’s western landscapes. Lewis and Clark passed through the area in 1805 and recorded an abundance of American bison, elk, bighorn sheep, and mule- and white-tailed deer, but many species had been reduced to small, remnant populations hanging on in inaccessible rough terrain by 1936, when the re

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Western artist Charles M. Russell (1864 - 1926) painted nearly 4,000 works of art in his lifetime, many of them set in the Judith River country of his beloved Montana, where he also became a noted writer, conservationist, and advocate of the Northern Plains Indians. His legacy is embodied in the sprawling Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, an 1.1-million-acre tract along 125 miles of the Missouri River that also encompasses the 245,000-acre Fort Peck Reservoir. It is a region of vast native prairie, forested coulees, and badlands that formed the backdrops for much of Russell’s western landscapes. Lewis and Clark passed through the area in 1805 and recorded an abundance of American bison, elk, bighorn sheep, and mule- and white-tailed deer, but many species had been reduced to small, remnant populations hanging on in inaccessible rough terrain by 1936, when the region was first established as a national game range. Fort Peck Reservoir has provided good fishing for walleye, sauger, northern pike, and lake trout for years, as here in this 1950’s era photo.

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